Meet Dylan Field -A university dropout to a billionaire

Meet 30-year-old tech whiz Dylan Field who went from a university dropout to a billionaire

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The 30-year-old has sold his design software company Figma to rival Adobe for US$20 billion

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His late father, Andy, worked as a respiratory therapist, while his mother, Beth, is a resource specialist teacher.

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His father recalled that Field was so bored in middle school that he hung out with a janitor “who was kind of a maths savant”.

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Field was into acting in his childhood, he appeared in television ads for eToys and Windows XP

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While some view programming as a technical field, Field thinks of it as “the closest thing we have to magic”.

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Figma is the latest deca-unicorn born out of the Thiel Fellowship, a US$100,000 grant for students who drop out of college to focus on a business or project.

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In 2021, Forbes reported Field sold his CryptoPunk NFT – an avatar of a pipe-smoking, hat and sunglasses-wearing teal alien – for US$7.5 million.

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