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NEW: Dylan Field (Dylan Field), CEO of Figma (NYSE: FIG) How to Escape the "Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste" › Why AI prompts only get you the average › Why the market has design backwards Plus, Founders Fund's Mafia & Thiel Fellowship class behind Figma + Anthropic Recorded at Day 0 of Config 2026, San Francisco We Cover: › Vibe Mathing › Elon: Products vs Logos › AI's trust issue › Agents vs Employees › Engineers coding design › American Enterprise > › IQ ≠ Judgment or taste › What actually is a jailbreak? This was SO much fun!!! Can confirm Config-pilled. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Dylan Field, Co-Founder & CEO at Figma (00:57) Day Zero begins: backstage at Config (01:44) The "Coachella for Design" is real (02:35) Why Dylan started Config back in 2020 (03:47) Why "design is dead" is completely wrong (06:11) How Figma turned engineers into designers (06:54) Inside Config before the crowd arrives (07:55) The Config speakers Dylan can't wait to watch (11:34) Inside the exclusive Pantone Lounge (12:00) The one question every designer gets asked (13:16) Getting killed in every single game of Mafia (15:33) How to escape the permanent underclass of zero taste (19:51) Why execution is cheap but taste is everything (22:25) What actually builds a trusted brand (25:51) How AI agents are rewiring company structure (28:54) The AI safety debate happening right now (31:57) Why deep curiosity is Dylan's secret weapon (34:53) The real lesson from being a Thiel fellow (36:52) Rapid fire: Elad Gil's wildest question (38:04) What people are missing about AI & enterprise software (40:16) Where Figma goes next (41:21) Why Dylan is bullish on SpaceX (42:43) Elon Musk's logo theory (43:26) The mentors who shaped Dylan Field (45:20) Alan Kay, VR, and the future of human-computer interaction
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NEW: Dylan Field (Dylan Field), CEO of Figma (NYSE: FIG) How to Escape the "Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste" › Why AI prompts only get you the average › Why the market has design backwards Plus, Founders Fund's Mafia & Thiel Fellowship class behind Figma + Anthropic Recorded at Day 0 of Config 2026, San Francisco We Cover: › Vibe Mathing › Elon: Products vs Logos › AI's trust issue › Agents vs Employees › Engineers coding design › American Enterprise > › IQ ≠ Judgment or taste › What actually is a jailbreak? This was SO much fun!!! Can confirm Config-pilled. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Dylan Field, Co-Founder & CEO at Figma (00:57) Day Zero begins: backstage at Config (01:44) The "Coachella for Design" is real (02:35) Why Dylan started Config back in 2020 (03:47) Why "design is dead" is completely wrong (06:11) How Figma turned engineers into designers (06:54) Inside Config before the crowd arrives (07:55) The Config speakers Dylan can't wait to watch (11:34) Inside the exclusive Pantone Lounge (12:00) The one question every designer gets asked (13:16) Getting killed in every single game of Mafia (15:33) How to escape the permanent underclass of zero taste (19:51) Why execution is cheap but taste is everything (22:25) What actually builds a trusted brand (25:51) How AI agents are rewiring company structure (28:54) The AI safety debate happening right now (31:57) Why deep curiosity is Dylan's secret weapon (34:53) The real lesson from being a Thiel fellow (36:52) Rapid fire: Elad Gil's wildest question (38:04) What people are missing about AI & enterprise software (40:16) Where Figma goes next (41:21) Why Dylan is bullish on SpaceX (42:43) Elon Musk's logo theory (43:26) The mentors who shaped Dylan Field (45:20) Alan Kay, VR, and the future of human-computer interaction

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