Design MBA

Jayneil Dalal

Design MBA is an interview series with design leaders and design entrepreneurs hosted by Jayneil Dalal.

  1. Designing the Facebook Like Button

    14/12/2023

    Designing the Facebook Like Button

    🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. How the iconic Facebook like button was designed?  2. How a designer invested early in startups like Figma, Framer and Diagram?  📢 WHY IS SOLEIO CUERVO A ROCKSTAR?  Soleio Cuervo is a software designer turned investor. He led early design efforts at Facebook, Messenger, then Dropbox. Now he invests in extraordinary software startups and helps them win through great design. He is a proud backer of Figma, Framer, Vercel, Vanta, Perplexity, Synthesia, Read.cv, Pulley, Replit, Universe, Liveblocks, tldraw, Plain, and dozens more startups worldwide!  ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS  (00:00) Interview trailer  (00:50) Who is Soleio Cuervo? (software designer turned investor)  (1:23) How does a VC deal with FOMO?  (3:09) VC shares their framework for deciding who to meet  (6:25) How does a VC deal with an overwhelming amount of inbound requests?  (9:15) Importance of being diplomatic when saying 'No'  (10:37) Soleio Cuervo explains how he designed the iconic Facebook like button  (17:08) Investing in Dropbox  (19:23) Structuring your week based on initiatives  (20:19) How Jayneil gatecrashed a VIP event in San Francisco  (21:17) How Drew Houston closes candidates at Dropbox?  (22:19) Why raise your own VC fund compared to joining Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz?  (24:57) Investing your money into startups or raise a big VC fund?  (28:46) Investing pre Series A in Figma  (36:27) Why build relationship with a startup team over rushing to write a check?  (37:38) Seeing the multiplayer demo for the first time from Evan Wallace at Figma  (39:26) Investing in Framer's seed round  (41:56) Why did Framer survive through the hard times and multiple pivots?  (43:05) Investing Diagram's seed round (acquired by Figma)  (45:49) Soleio gives Jayneil career advice  (50:36) Why is Jayneil so excited about the research tool Ballpark?  🤝 CONNECT WITH SOLEIO CUERVO Twitter - https://twitter.com/soleio Website - https://read.cv/soleio   🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil  Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal  📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/hZ3Z2frAWvM 🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:https://www.sneakpeek.design/

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Design MBA is an interview series with design leaders and design entrepreneurs hosted by Jayneil Dalal.