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Design Startup Figma’s CEO Is Now A Billionaire
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4:54Now PlayingUpdate: After this video was published, Forbes has updated the figures to reflect that Figma’s stock closed at $115.50 per share Thursday, or more than triple the $33 per share IPO listing price. That pushed Field’s fortune up to an estimated $6.4 billion and made his cofounder Evan Wallace a billionaire, worth an estimated $3.1 billion.
Antitrust pressure killed Adobe’s $20 billion takeover for design startup Figma. The company, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, is now worth nearly $70 billion on a fully diluted basis.
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