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Every Friday, Barry's chairman meets with people who sent him cold emails asking for career advice—‘even random people on LinkedIn’

Barry's boss, Joey Gonzalez, climbed the company ladder from instructor to the boardroom. He tells Gen Z and young millennials how cold emails can help them open doors—and even land promotions.

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California tech founders unload on a proposed state wealth tax that already has some billionaires preparing an escape. 'I am screwed for life'

"One market correction, nationalization event, or prohibition of divestiture (not at all uncommon during wartime) and I am screwed for life."

Fortune

'Stop Panicking About AI': Tech Boss of $28B Startup Says Workers Should Focus on Adapting, Not Worrying

Figma CEO Dylan Field says AI isn't a threat but an opportunity — urging workers to adapt and grow as the $28 billion design startup expands hiring despite industry-wide automation fears.

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Sam Altman-Backed Arcadia Medicine Gets FDA Nod for Trials on 'Healthier' Ecstasy Formula

San Francisco biotech Arcadia Medicine, backed by Sam Altman, wins FDA nod to trial AM-1002, a safer MDMA variant to treat anxiety.

International Business Times UK

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’s explosive IPO saw shares soar 250%, valuing the company at $68 billion. The stock has since fallen more than 50% from that peak.

Fortune

Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner—and here’s Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there

From Gates to Zuckerberg, Trump hosted dozens of Silicon Valley icons in the newly renovated Rose Garden.

Fortune

Figma Discloses $91 Million Bitcoin ETF Stake In Its $1.6 Billion Treasury — As CEO Hints At 'M&A At Scale' Amid AI-Driven Margin Pressures

During its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, design tools maker Figma Inc. (NYSE:FIG) revealed a surprise in its balance sheet: a sizable position in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).

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Figma is getting crushed in its post-IPO earnings debut; CEO Dylan Field is focused on AI’s long-term power to ‘raise the ceiling’

In an interview with Fortune, the cofounder and chief executive of the newly public Figma discussed the increasingly interconnected future of design and AI.

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These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

The Thiel fellowship awards $200,000 to young people who skip or leave college to spend two years building a startup, with notable alumni including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo.

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Figma’s CEO sent cold emails to and bought coffee for his 'heroes' while convincing ex-coworkers to use his product before its $68 billion success

Dylan Field may not be helming a $68 billion company if it weren’t for cold-calling his former coworkers and taking his tech “heroes” for coffee—and execs at Google and Squarespace found success the same way.

Fortune

Figma’s CEO is now worth $5 billion after IPO—like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates, he’s another college-dropout billionaire

As Gen Z questions the value of higher education, Figma CEO Dylan Field is the latest tech billionaire to make it big without a college degree.

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Cathie Wood is Buying Figma Stock with Both Hands. Should You Buy This Hot IPO, Too?

Figma stock has almost tripled in market value since its initial public offering last week, attracting investments from Cathie Wood and others.

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Figma IPO's surprise winner is a charity with 13 million shares—and a famous backstory that sparked a bitter feud over a donor's oil fortune

The Marin Community Foundation netted $440 million as the IPO's largest selling shareholder. The philanthropic organization is itself the product of a previous generation of big business—and a famous legal fight for control of the money.

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Figma’s 33-year-old cofounder is a former LinkedIn intern who launched the $68 billion Wall Street darling with $100k from Peter Thiel

Dylan Field dropped out of Brown University to build his multibillion-dollar tech brand.

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Why Index’s Danny Rimer bet on Figma and Dylan Field at the seed stage

Index Ventures’s Danny Rimer—whose investments also include Etsy, Dropbox, Discord, and Dream Games—led Figma’s 2013 seed round.

Fortune

As Figma goes public, a turning point in the long-awaited IPO market recovery takes shape

Figma, the design software unicorn run by Dylan Field, will go public on Thursday in a moment bigger than any one company.

Benzinga

Ex-SpaceX Team's $25M Startup Is Rewiring The Future Of U.S. Defense—They Still Build These Things 'The Same Way They Did During The Cold War'

Senra, a Southern California startup founded by ex‑SpaceX engineers Jordan Black and Benjamin Shanahan, is stepping into the spotlight after announcing on June 18 a $25 million Series A aimed at revamping critical U.S. defense manufacturing.

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Figma's Crypto Playbook Revealed Ahead Of IPO: $69 Million In Bitcoin ETFs, $30 Million More Coming Soon

Design company Figma (NYSE:FIG) has filed for an IPO and, along with sharing impressive revenue figures and year-over-year growth, the company's investments in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) are making headlines.

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Figma's IPO: 7 key takeaways

Design software company Figma has filed for an IPO, which is expected to raise up to $1.5 billion.

Fortune

Figma files for IPO nearly two years after $20 billion Adobe buyout fell through

The design software startup, helmed by cofounder Dylan Field, moved closer toward one of the most anticipated public offerings of the year.

Fortune

Figma, software unicorn, confidentially files for an IPO despite Wall Street turbulence

Figma has confidentially filed for an IPO more than a year after a $20 billion acquisition bid by Adobe fell apart due to antitrust concerns.

Creative Bloq

The Figma Apple UI debacle shows the risks of rushing to launch AI tools

Another reminder that designers need to be careful when using AI.

The Guardian - UK

Figma’s AI app creator accused of ripping off Apple weather app

Company pulls Make Designs after requests to design weather app result in program ‘almost identical’ to iOS app

TechRadar

Figma takes down its AI design tool after an embarrassing copying incident

After creating an app suspiciously similar to Apple’s Weather offering, Figma has taken Make Design offline.

Creative Bloq

'I can't tell you how scary it is designing for designers': Why Figma's new UI is a big deal

UI3 is designed to bring cohesion to the Figma ecosystem.

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