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Figma’s CEO on moving on after failed Adobe merger - The Verge

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By Alex Heath, a deputy editor and author of the Command Line newsletter. He’s covered the tech industry for over a decade at The Information and other outlets. Happy Friday. Earlier this week, I spoke with Figma CEO Dylan Field for his first extended interview since regulators forced Adobe to abandon its $20 billion acquisition of his company — a deal that would have been one of the largest ever for a software company. You can read the Q&A below, plus my notes on the latest AI news, an exec departure at X, and more… If you aren’t already subscribed to Command Line, sign up here to get future issues in your inbox. Very few people get to sell their startup for billions of dollars. Even fewer have the opportunity taken away. With his blockbuster sale to Adobe having been blocked by regulators, Figma CEO Dylan Field finds himself in that unique position. It hasn’t been an easy reset, especially for the early Figma employees who believed they were about to get paid out. He recently offered

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