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Evan Wallace.
Co-founder of Figma.
Typefounder
CategoryDesign tools
Based inSan Francisco
By Anish· Founder · Vedwix
·Story
Evan Wallace is the co-founder of Figma. He served as CTO from founding to 2022. He's widely respected for the technical breakthroughs that made Figma's real-time collaborative editor possible — running a vector graphics tool in a browser was considered impossible at the time. After Figma, Evan has been less publicly active but remains a major figure in browser-based tooling.
What they built
Figma (technical foundation).
Notable facts
- Co-founder and former CTO of Figma
- Built the technical foundation of Figma
- WebGL and graphics expert
- Less publicly active post-2022
- Major equity holder
Design / brand lessons
Quiet technical co-founders are sometimes the most important people in a company.
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