Mike Krieger and Luis von Ahn join Figma’s Board of Directors | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)
Figma announced that Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer and Instagram co-founder, and Luis von Ahn, Duolingo’s co-founder and CEO, have joined its Board of Directors. Both bring experience scaling widely used products and championing strong design, product quality, and innovation. Figma expects their perspectives to support its evolution into an AI-powered platform for collaborative product development. ## Mike Krieger’s Product and Infrastructure Experience - Krieger oversees product engineering, management, and design at Anthropic. - As Instagram’s co-founder and CTO, he scaled its infrastructure from a few million users to more than 1 billion monthly active users. - He later co-founded Artifact, a personalized news app acquired by Yahoo. - Figma CEO Dylan Field praised Krieger’s combination of broad product vision and meticulous execution. - Krieger was also an early angel investor in Figma. ## Luis von Ahn’s Design and Growth Expertise - Von Ahn co-founded Duolingo in 2011 and has led its growth to more than 100 million monthly active users. - Duolingo provides language education in over 40 languages and is known for its approachable, engaging design. - Before Duolingo, von Ahn co-created CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, including a crowdsourced approach to internet security. - Field highlighted von Ahn’s close collaboration with Duolingo’s design team and his advocacy for design despite his computer science background. ## Figma’s Expanding Board - Krieger and von Ahn join existing directors including Dylan Field, Mamoon Hamid, Kelly Kramer, John Lilly, Bill McDermott, Andrew Reed, Danny Rimer, and Lynn Vojvodich Radakovich. - The appointments add expertise in AI, consumer products, education, infrastructure, enterprise software, and design-led growth. - Figma describes itself as an AI-powered platform supporting the full process from ideation and design through development and shipping. Figma’s board additions reinforce its focus on product craft, design, AI, and large-scale user growth as it expands beyond design tooling into a broader product-development platform.