{"id":20264,"date":"2022-11-10T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=20264"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:49:48","slug":"podcast-why-figma-is-selling-to-adobe-for-20-billion-with-ceo-dylan-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/10\/podcast-why-figma-is-selling-to-adobe-for-20-billion-with-ceo-dylan-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: &#8220;Why Figma is selling to Adobe for $20 billion, with CEO Dylan Field&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I had the chance to grab breakfast with Figma founder &amp; CEO Dylan Field a couple of weeks ago, and I found him to be incredibly modest and down to earth. He reminded me of certain fellow Brown CS majors\u2014the brilliant &amp; gracious founding team of Adobe After Effects. I can&#8217;t wait for them all to meet someday soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, I really enjoyed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/8\/23445821\/figma-adobe-acquisition-design-vr-ai-meta\">hour-long interview<\/a> Dylan did with Nilay Patel of The Verge. Here&#8217;s hoping that the Adobe deal goes through as planned &amp; that we get to do great things together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the chance to grab breakfast with Figma founder &amp; CEO Dylan Field a couple of weeks ago, and I found him to be incredibly modest and down to earth. He reminded me of certain fellow Brown CS majors\u2014the brilliant &amp; gracious founding team of Adobe After Effects. I can&#8217;t wait for them all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20264\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}