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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Inc. Magazine Rising Stars of 2019 (with Dylan Field)
★Thiel Fellowship recipient in 2012
Notable Facts
→Co-founded Figma in 2012 and served as CTO until leaving in 2021
→Created esbuild, a widely-used JavaScript bundler that's 10-100x faster than competitors
→Estimated net worth of $3+ billion after Figma IPO in 2025
→Donated a third of his Figma stock (~$440M) to Marin Community Foundation
→Brown University computer science graduate who was a teaching assistant
→Technical pioneer in WebGL and browser-based graphics rendering
→Developed Figma's core architecture including rendering engine and multiplayer collaboration
→Left Figma in 2021 before the failed Adobe acquisition attempt
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