Designing the Facebook Like Button

from Design MBA · host Jayneil Dalal, Soleio Cuervo

🧠 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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