Dylan Field, the 33-year-old cofounder and CEO of Figma, has become one of the tech world’s youngest billionaires after the company’s stunning stock market debut last week. Figma’s IPO surprised Wall Street as its share price soared by 333% within days, pushing the company’s market value past $70 billion. Investors scrambled for a piece of the action, and as the dust settled, Field’s net worth jumped to an estimated $5 to $6.6 billion.
Who is Dylan Field?
Born in California, Dylan Field studied computer science at Brown University, where he met Evan Wallace, his company’s cofounder. In 2012, Field made a life-changing decision to drop out of college after being selected for the Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 grant from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, aimed at supporting students who leave college to build startups full-time.
Field used that opportunity to launch Figma, a browser-based design tool that allows teams to collaborate in real time. Over the years, Figma has grown into one of the most important platforms for digital design. It is used by millions of people around the world, with more than 80% of users outside the US and over half of its revenue coming from international markets.
Dylan Field’s net worth after Figma’s IPO
Field’s rise to billionaire status was nearly instant. With Figma’s stock exploding after its IPO, his personal net worth surged to $5 to $6.6 billion by early August 2025. The success of the IPO has not only revived excitement in the tech IPO space, but it has also brought Field into the global spotlight as a new face of Silicon Valley.
Tech billionaires who dropped out of college
Dylan Field now joins the ranks of other legendary tech founders who also left college early to chase big dreams. These include Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to build Microsoft and is now worth over $140 billion; Larry Ellison, who left both the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago before founding Oracle, with a fortune exceeding $190 billion; and Mark Zuckerberg, who quit Harvard in his second year to start Facebook (now Meta), with a current net worth of about $120 billion.
Others include Michael Dell, who left the University of Texas at Austin at 19 to focus on selling personal computers, building a net worth of around $90 billion, and Steve Jobs, the iconic cofounder of Apple, who dropped out of Reed College after one semester. Jobs’ net worth at the time of his death in 2011 was estimated between $7 to $10 billion.