Figma’s 33-year-old billionaire CEO says he tells his team to ignore stock price volatility: ‘We don’t control that number, we control the inputs’
Figma CEO Dylan Field delivered a clear message to his team before and even the day of his company’s Wall Street debut: Focus on what you can control, not the market’s whims.
In his first podcast interview since the design software company went public, the 33-year-old billionaire CEO told the hosts of Vox Media’s Access podcast, hosted by Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger, that he reminded his team to stay grounded amid the excitement of their initial public offering in July.
“I told the team before, even during—literally on the day of IPO—[and] after, you know, it’s like number goes up number goes down. And we don’t control that number, we control the inputs. And we have to educate the market,” Field said. “The…
