---
title: "Figma CEO Dylan Field on why he sold to Adobe"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/figma-ceo-dylan-field-on-why-he-sold-to-adobe-ooh0ksu5q
source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/20/figma-ceo-dylan-field-on-why-he-sold-to-adobe/
type: article
source: "TechCrunch"
published: 2022-10-20T19:01:27.490Z
updated: 2022-10-20T19:01:27.420Z
tags: ["tools", "adobe", "productivity", "figma"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 38
comments: 11
language: en
---

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# Figma CEO Dylan Field on why he sold to Adobe

**[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 38 upvotes · 11 comments

## Summary

Figma CEO Dylan Field talks about why he sold to Adobe a month after Adobe announced its plans for acquiring Figma, the popular digital design startup. Field says Figma offers tools for ideation and designing mockups, with plans for launching additional tools for more easily taking those mockups and turning them into code.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@pwitham** · 4 upvotes

> I want to give the benefit of the doubt here, but this sounds like the agreed verbiage in a buyout for PR purposes that we hear from all companies. "They won't touch our products, there will be no layoffs, and it's good for the user." Then after the paperwork is signed...

**@jorgerenteral** · 4 upvotes

> For money, and that's not bad, that's business

**@daiant** · 2 upvotes

> Generic responses, let's hope at least the promise of being an independent company holds over time.

**@epicurus** · 2 upvotes

> For the money of course, anything else is an excuse. Though while it'd take some time his company was in a position to take on Adobe and corner the mobile, email, app space, but alas gave a solid to Adobe... back to Sketch i go

**@arc9** · 1 upvotes

> What a sell out....

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