Posted Sep 28, 2022, 3:57 PMUpdated on Sep 28, 2022 at 4:23 p.m.
Even in Silicon Valley, Dylan Field’s career stands out. The boss of Figma, barely thirty years old, has just sold his company to Adobe for 20 billion dollars. A decision that was quickly criticized by the very people who have made Figma successful for ten years: the designers who use its online collaborative tools.
The leader will have to convince that he did not make this decision for the money alone. In addition to the sum paid by Adobe to acquire Figma, the CEO will benefit from a personal windfall of more than 1 billion dollars intended to convince him to remain at the head of the company. According to Forbes, this sum was to be even higher, but he insisted that the Figma teams benefit from an envelope roughly equal to his.
