Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product | TechCrunch

Krieger's departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the SaaSpocalypse — that the largest AI labs will come to dominate software businesses, a thesis that has rocked public markets at times this year.

Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product | TechCrunch In Brief Posted: 11:28 AM PDT · April 16, 2026 Image Credits: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Tim Fernholz Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14. His departure was disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the publicly traded $10 billion company the same day that The Information reported Anthropi

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