How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)

In today's conversation, Brett sits down with CMO of Figma, Sheila Joglekar Vashee. Previously the second marketing hire at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company past $1 billion in revenue, she now leads marketing at Figma fresh off its IPO. In an industry that has spent a decade trying to turn marketing into something closer to hedge fund trading, Sheila argues the art was always the point — we just stopped talking about it. She unpacks how to run marketing as a portfolio of moonshots, why giving teams different goals breeds dysfunction, how to scale taste across an organization, and why old playbooks are obsolete, even as the fundamentals hold.

In today's episode, we discuss:

How to run marketing like a portfolio of moonshots

The value of disruptive energy for senior marketers

Why "Ubiquity is the opposite of cool"

How to actually scale taste across an organization

What great marketing looks like in the AI era

Referenced:

Apple: https://www.apple.com/

Dennis Woodside: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-woodside-341302/

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/

Dylan Field: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanfield/