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Adobe's Figma retention package may be the biggest since Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, exceeding deal packages from Auth0, LinkedIn, Mobileye, and Slack

a key player in the Figma deal, now on the Adobe side. Salesforce couldn't hold on to Tableau's Adam Selipsky, back as CEO at AWS. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of Figma caused a stir. Lost in the hubbub: a historic $2.3 billion retention package for Figma CEO Dylan Field and employees offered on top. I dove into the billion extra reasons Adobe is giving Field to stick around... https://www.forbes.com/... Chris Tolles / @tolles : “And Adobe initially offered Field more, the sources add, before the CEO settled upon a roughly even split with staff” — props to the CEO for giving more to his crew here https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @alexrkonrad

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  • @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x
    Ironically, one acquired CEO who wasn't offered a big retention package, per filings, was AppDynamics' David Wadhwani — a key player in the Figma deal, now on the Adobe side. Salesforce couldn't hold on to Tableau's Adam Selipsky, back as CEO at AWS. https://www.forbes.com/... ht…
  • @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x
    Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of Figma caused a stir. Lost in the hubbub: a historic $2.3 billion retention package for Figma CEO Dylan Field and employees offered on top. I dove into the billion extra reasons Adobe is giving Field to stick around... https://www.forbes.com/...
  • @tolles Chris Tolles on x
    “And Adobe initially offered Field more, the sources add, before the CEO settled upon a roughly even split with staff” — props to the CEO for giving more to his crew here https://twitter.com/...