2022
A speaker says Adobe paid about 20 billion dollars for Figma and included a large retention bonus for founder Dylan Field.
“that's why they paid 20 billion dollars for it and have a gigantic bonus for dylan to stay on board”
Topic
Figma
9 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2022
Adobe agreed to buy Figma for about $20 billion and the deal then went through a long regulatory review in Europe and the United States.
“Adobe decides to buy Figma for 20 billion. There is a lengthy review process, both in Europe.”
2023
Rao said the Adobe-Figma deal entered the in-depth phase two review with both the UK and the European Commission in June and July.
“as soon as you go into phase two, which we went into in July, June and July, with both the UK and the European Commission.”
2023
Rao said Figma had about 800 employees and argued that regulators wrongly assumed it could expand into many markets at once.
“Figma's gonna build Photoshop or whatever, they have 800, 800 people, but then they're gonna somehow magically do everything right.”
2024
Rao said the UK and European Commission decisions on the Adobe-Figma deal were due on February 5 and February 25.
“And in our case, the decisions were February fifth, February twenty fifth.”
Undated
Liu says Airtable started around the same time as Figma, and both benefited from shifting user expectations and better web technology.
“we started around the same time as Figma, but I think what we both benefited from was both a shift in consumer”
Undated
An Atlassian Confluence Slides team used Figma's MCP and coding agents to find and fix fourteen design-to-code discrepancies in an hour, work Tamar Yehoshua says would have taken days.
“So they fixed fourteen bugs in an hour, which it would have taken days.”
Undated
An Atlassian team working on Confluence slides compared Figma designs against code to find differences.
“They took the designs from Figma and then the code and said, where are the deltas between the designs and the code?”
Undated
Using Figma's MCP and coding agents, the Confluence slides team fixed fourteen design-to-code bugs in an hour, which Yehoshua says would have taken days.
“So they fixed fourteen bugs in an hour, which it would have taken days.”
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