D ylan Field is an American technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a collaborative web-based design tool that has become an essential platform for designers and product teams around the world. A computer science prodigy, Field was a Thiel Fellow, a program that encourages young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to start a company. He took the grant and founded Figma in 2012 with his Brown University classmate, Evan Wallace.

Figma was a pioneer in creating a design tool that operated entirely in the cloud, allowing multiple users to collaborate on the same design file in real-time, similar to Google Docs. This was a revolutionary concept that disrupted the market dominated by Adobe's desktop-based software. As CEO, Field has led the company's explosive growth, turning it into one of the most beloved and valuable private software companies in Silicon Valley. In 2022, Adobe announced a massive $20 billion deal to acquire Figma, though the deal was later terminated due to regulatory pressure.