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Adobe's $20 Billion Bid for Figma Collapsed. Dylan Field's IPO Made It Worth $68 Billion.

Regulators killed Adobe's $20B bid for Figma in 2023. Nineteen months later, Dylan Field's IPO valued the company at $68 billion.

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Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022
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