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The Early Investing Podcast: Adobe’s Pricey Figma Acquisition
By Early Investing on September 28, 2022
It’s a tale as old as time. A startup creates a great product, generating lots of sales and happy customers. A corporate behemoth tries to compete with the startup by launching its own version of the product. The corporate behemoth fails miserably and decides to buy the startup with the superior product. Then everyone lives happily ever after — or not, if the behemoth ruins the product. The latest version of this story stars Figma —…