Dylan Field

Dylan Field (born 1992) is an American billionaire technology businessman, and co-founder of Figma, a web-based vector graphics editing software company. Field founded Figma in 2012 with Evan Wallace, whom he had met while they were computer science students at Brown University. In 2012, Field received a Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 grant conditioned on his leaving school to begin working full-time on the company. Field moved to San Francisco with Wallace, where they spent four years preparing the software for its first public release in 2016. In June 2026, Forbes estimated Field's net worth to be $1.1 billion, down from $6.6 billion in August 2025.

Early life

Childhood Field grew up in Penngrove, California. He is Jewish. Field was an only child, named after the poet Dylan Thomas. His father worked as a respiratory therapist at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and his mother as a resource specialist teacher at Thomas Page Elementary School. He also participated in the arts as a child, acting with credits in TV ads for eToys.com and for Windows XP, and taking an interest in design starting in middle school.

Field attended high school at Technology High School, a magnet school for science, technology, engineering, and math on the campus of Sonoma State University. He also worked with social media researcher Danah Boyd, who ultimately wrote one of Field's letters of recommendation for college. Field was an involved member of Brown's computer science department: In 2011, he organized a hackathon in which 150students participated, and starting in late 2011, he co-chaired Brown's CS Departmental Undergraduate Group.

During a semester away from Brown, Field applied to the Thiel Fellowship, a grant awarded to young entrepreneurs by investor Peter Thiel on the condition that they drop out of college for at least two years.

In July 2025, the company held its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Sunday Robotics, Warp, and Netlify.

Field is also an NFT collector. Field purchased his first CryptoPunk NFT in January2018. He later described himself thinking at the time, "this is probably the stupidest thing I've ever done." In the days afterward, Field discussed the sale on The Good Time Show, a popular Clubhouse show, comparing the sold NFT to "a digital Mona Lisa". In 2019, Field was named an INC Rising Star. In 2020, Field was named one of Business Insider's "10 people transforming the technology industry." In 2022, Field was named to Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40 list