Dylan Field shares insights on Figma’s deliberate growth strategy, emphasizing real-time collaboration and sustainable innovation over chasing AI or valuation hype. The discussion explores how AI is reshaping design by automating tasks while expanding team roles rather than replacing them. As product and design boundaries blur, human creativity remains central, with AI serving as a collaborator. Field challenges the myth that founders must be driven by trauma, advocating for emotional intelligence and introspection in leadership. He also reflects on generational shifts in tech, noting Gen Z’s crisis-shaped worldview and irony-laced culture. Amid crypto’s rise and fall, Figma stayed focused, using setbacks like the failed Adobe acquisition to strengthen resilience through programs like Detach. Looking ahead, Figma's AI roadmap—enhanced by acquisitions like Weavey—aims to empower creators across modalities, reinforcing a future where technology amplifies, not replaces, human ingenuity.