Just four years ago, Figma's founder was drinking dollar coffee and living in a gritty San Francisco apartment. Now Dylan Field, 30, is poised to sell his software company to Adobe for $20 billion. 'It's very cool,' he tells MarketWatch.
Almost overnight, this 30-year-old has become the tech world’s newest titan — and is poised to become one of the world’s youngest billionaires.
And Adobe clearly saw value in Figma’s model. The acquisition is said to be the largest in Adobe’s history, although some Wall Street analysts have questioned whether it paid too much. But Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen advised investors that the deal will “significantly expand our reach and market opportunity.”
But Field admits he’s still pretty buzzed about the events of the past week. “It’s very cool though, I’m not going to lie,” he says. A newer product that Figma offers is FigJam, which Field describes as a “whiteboard solution.” The thought behind it, Field explains, is “that we can help people go from ideation and brainstorming into the design process and all the way to production.”
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