The tech season is at full range. This week, stripe and Figma gathered thousands of thousands of San Francisco distroppies for their workshop. I caught with CEO Figma Denmark After opening his buttons at contig, where he declared the most important product extension in the history of the company.
Below, you will see our conversations on the way he saw in the figure after the new year he is located to grow platforms, and so on. And continue reading how Meta is turning heat to the AI team, my thoughts on this week’s news, etc …
“Design and craft is a difference”
Today, it looks like Figma with all creativity industries in its view.
On Wednesday, CEO Denmark Walk to the front of about 8,000 people at Moscone zero in announced 4 new tools: websing-plat tool similar to canva canol, and Adobe Illustrator competitors.
The last time I interviewed the field, he has set up the internal culture of Figma after $ 20 billion in Adobe was blocked. When we caught after you wanted to hear about the expansion of II number of difficulty to grow his number
The following conversations have been modified for length and clarity:
Last year, when you start including AI Generacer into Figma, with members about it in the industry. It feels like the mood changed. Now, people are starting to accept AI’s thoughts in these creative products. Do you feel that change?
I think people understand what the simulation is done, and it is different from the 2024 configuration, where we are not practicing it.
The style is useful, and I think they come with trade. We are using Claude Sonnet 3.7 in demonstration. Of course, it is a module. We can use other models, and will, in the future. The only thing that is changing when it comes to developmental development. You do not have to be estimated from these forms they will remove, and if it will be a derivative or unrealler.
In your perspective, model plug-and-PLUG-PLUG-PLUG-PLUB-PLOP-PLYCHING you are carrying out your responsibility to model providers?
We make the best of all where possible to make features. For example, if you designate from the community, and we can detect it from the community, we pay attention to your code. At the same time, we can not tell that such a model has to think something with identifiable capacity. It’s not what we have trained, yes? So it has only far that we can go here. That does not mean that it is not helpful to users.
Are you worried about a provider model doing more than Figma can be done? What do you think about your place as an application in AI world?
Look back in the past decade at Figma, what was amazed for me is that we made the project. It is basically going to set. We are going to see more software that is created than AI.
I truly believe that designs and crafts are the differences that make products and brands. Can you choose your code or code to something that earns money? Absolutely. But will it be a patience product? For that, if you have any level competition, you need a really good design, the view, good users, and a good brand. If you think about all human situations, I do not see it as the case will be the case.
How do you approach the Figma that extend to new products?
We see what people are doing in Figma. Back by 2020, at epidemic times, people kept as photos like to cooperate. We have seen the brain and ideology. We must pull that out and make it an area of itself because Figma design is not updated for brain, ideal, or diagram. We saw that 5 percent of the Figma design documents are the slides, so we went and product. I think there is a lot inside of the figures, in terms of the case, which must be pulled out.
The figures make, which you just recommend, is extensive, a widespread in what it can do. What is the goal?
We talk a lot about the process of going from thinking of the product, and it can be related to all different procedures. Make a whole process. Sometimes you have an idea in your head, and you want to destroy this.
To Place Figma, you’re going to compete with Squarespace and WordPress? Are you going into the web hosting and deeper?
Now, we host. You can set up a custom domain. The place was made in a photo for a long time. You may have to go somewhere else to use them, or you can code it all from yourself from Figma. Of course, we hope the dev model can help, but if we can press the publisher, which is better for the designer. I think that is the case of beautiful different use from the world of the world, where, similar to canva, they are targeted to consumers and small businesses.
Will you release mobile app for Figma Buzz, Your AI Market Tool? If you do, I can see the competition directly with Canva.
That is not in our plan now. I think now we focused on making sure buzz is truly high quality for what we try to do on site, and we can go beyond.
I have the greatest respect for canva. The founder is trustworthy. My Ideas Canva is more common in consumer and small businesses. You are trying to do something fast. Buzz is focused on brand property. It is the case using enterprises.
Do you think the tools like buzz resembling a digital campaign as it is available today?
I think there is a role for AI in producing market assets. In the village, you can create images and you can write the message. What I have not seen was a model world can create content of the content of the brand team. Maybe it’s coming, but it seems far as far as you might expect.
- Meta’s Alarm call: The AI team at Meta is the heat feeling. Chief of Product Workers Chris CoxThe person who cares for the Creating Llama and Meta Ai recently wrote the internal information mentioned “Burnout” in Org and Culture he wants to resolve. As he admits that “exciting seeds with the original recipients” of the structure that will have a range of skills of our best techniques. ” Some other words, per copy of the memo I see: “We need unwanted forms to conceal how we are operating on the level we are operating.”
- OpenAi is still non-profit: Despite Openai said it was found how to stay non-profitable while creating unlimited profits, the structure of the company is beyond. There is also a big question of unnecessary control of the unnecessary control of the business (a decision to be blessed from the controller and has been set Elong musk), In the other way there is a huge consequence for operai investors. New winner Report “Microsoft needs a larger stake than Openai feeling is fair.” If Shampoo Can escape from cleanliness from Faustian bargain He was done with Microsoft Yeho earlier before for calculating, it would be more impressive than the user growth of the CATTPT. The future funding of Openai from Silbank, the ability to do Big offers such as windsurfAnd the most replacement try is up to this complexity was selected.
- “That never happened in 20 years.” – Eddy cue Regarding the witnesses, describe Google traffic methods down in Safari for the first month last month. (It’s a threat threat of $ 20 billion – plus the profitable holy range of profit to make you talk.)
- “The Tim has a bad week. I will not fall in. Sundar is cool.” – Mark Zuckerberg Onstage in stripe session Lead John collisis.
- What is it. “- Dara KhoSrowshahi During Uber All-Hand On the company’s change to the sabbatical policy and returning to the office.
- “Some products I have been very involved, I think there are some unprotected consequences of the joy.” – Jony Ive onstage with Patrick Collisis In striped sessions.
- “The wealthiest man in the world is involved in the world’s poorest child’s death” – Bill gates Subtle Elon musk While talking to The New York Times.
- The only job that moves to everyone who can say about this week is CEO Instacart Faith Si The title to Opernai to be “CEO of the application” this news is Leak Good ahead When it is planned To announce, causing a very dramatic in Instapart, especially. Si makes it feel like a leader that operays, as she was in the panel in the non-system of non-accounting. Very interesting thing is that Shampoo Just give Housefold Brad LightCap Audit “day” Operation “,” and now the SIM is required to be a Lightcap’s employer. Normal That This new configuration will help her focus on “research, computer and security.” We will see about that!
- Talk about Operai: Aliisa RothshalIts first sales chief was Leave.
- rob FergusThe co-operator founds the Meta’s meta lab, fair, Have returned After five years at Google Deepind to guide the organization. Chief of Scientists Yann Lecun Yes This billing As “refocusing about the intelligence of an advancement machine: What other people will call AI or AGI human level.” Still, And reedmeta’s coo for reality laboratory, is Leave.
- Google Cloud Exec (And former Author Promotion) Jerry Disller Announce He is leaving the company after 20 years.
- Counselor Aurora Co Anderson Sterling Yes Leave “The role of seniority that complies worldwide with symbols.”
- Greg EstesNVIDIA’s VP of Corporate Marketing and Development Program, is Emomented retirement After 15 years.
- Chris’s mobile, Snap’s first general advice, is Participate Rippling in the same role. And Ruby Zofo ZooPrivacy authorities of Uber, is Emomented retirement.
- Netflix is Find out Product manager to help people “create” build and share the content to participate in external methods and netflix. “
- x is looking for New Head of Pr. (Good luck.)
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