Figma’s CEO went from college dropout to 33-year-old billionaire

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Figma CEO Dylan Field is the latest tech billionaire to make it big without a college degree, joining the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates.

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00:00Figma's 33-year-old founder is officially a billionaire. After a blockbuster IPO debut,

00:05a surge in Figma's share price catapulted CEO Dylan Fields' net worth to around $5 billion,

00:11according to Forbes. But his road to success started after he left the classroom.

00:16Field dropped out of Brown University in his junior year after being awarded the Teal Fellowship,

00:21a program that gives thousands of dollars to young people who want to build new things

00:25instead of sitting in a classroom. He founded Figma in 2012 with Evan Wallace and the company

00:30went public last week with a record-breaking 250% stock surge, making it the largest first-day

00:37pop for a billion-dollar tech IPO. Other college dropouts turned billionaire CEOs include Mark

00:43Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, who went to Harvard, Sam Altman, who dropped out of Stanford,

00:47and Larry Ellison, who left the University of Illinois.

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