Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)
- If 0 to 1 is about product-market fit, -1 to 0 is about founder-market fit. Figure out what you want to build and why you are the right person to build it before you start.
from To Go 0 to 1, First Go -1 to 0 by Ruchi Sanghvi
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For me, Figma is where initial hunches live; a starting point. Not final designs. it's not until I start building and really using it that I get more signal to understand what aspects of the design feel good and which aspects don't. That's a big reason why I dislike teams that treat their visual designs as complete and "ready for handoff." Please,
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- The core lesson is that the best and most disruptive companies go "from zero to one," from non-existence to existence, from no solution to solution, from nothing expected to something expected. Most companies, though, go from 1 to 1.1, or 1.1 to 1.11, they don't make a huge disruptive change. To have a lasting impact, you must find a zero and creat... See more
from Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
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Figma’s founding vision = to “eliminate the gap between imagination and reality.”
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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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By working within the browser, Figma introduced an astounding level of efficiency into the design process and drove organization-wide adoption, which resulted in large ACV enterprise opportunities. This required a period of complex product development prior to monetization — so being product-obsessed and patient were a big part of the company’s cul
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