a16z|11月 05, 2026 18:03
Figma CFO Praveer Melwani says his corp dev team now tests a target's moat by trying to vibe code its product, then runs the M&A memo past AI versions of Figma's leaders:
"I think our team's gotten really damn good at some of this. You can get through some of the, you know, 'Is this a real thing? Is it not? How difficult is it or not?' There's obviously nuances to a whole bunch of these ideas, but it gives you like a solid intuition there."
"More often than not, there are themes, there are similar questions, there are ways that we all as leaders tend to have a way of looking at problems. And what's been interesting is [the corp dev team has] gone and created unique [AI] personalities for each of us as leaders... that they can go and run their investment memos by."
"They'll sit there kind of going back and forth and saying, 'Okay, this is what Praveer would say, and this is what [CEO] Dylan would say, and this is what Sean would say,' our CRO... It reduces the cycle time that we're all sitting together on."
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