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ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:37 Ben Gilbert Like, the, the parallels between Superhuman and Figma are uncanny.
- ▶ 1:31:30 Jason Calacanis I just bought Adobe this week when they bought Figma.
- ▶ 1:31:39 Ben Gilbert They bought Figma and tanked, and I was like, why did, why do people hate this?
- ▶ 1:31:44 Ben Gilbert And that, like, they can't innovate in-house, or, and to me, I, I look at it like, Adobe has customer channel, and it was foretold five plus years ago that they were not going to build the next Figma.
- ▶ 1:32:03 Ben Gilbert So buying the thing, even though they paid a tremendous premium, because, because of the network effects that Figma has,
- ▶ 1:32:22 Ben Gilbert They're gonna kill Figma.
- ▶ 1:32:42 Jason Calacanis I added to that analysis is, if you're not going to win the war, and you can build an alliance, and then fight another war, like, they've just removed the downside of Figma creating Photoshop.
- ▶ 1:32:57 Ben Gilbert I'd be concerned for Adobe if Fig, they didn't buy Figma.
- ▶ 1:33:51 Jason Calacanis There's a group of MBAs who penciled out that spreadsheet with Figma, no offense to MBAs who are listening, and they said, hey boss,
- ▶ 1:34:05 Jason Calacanis If we make Figma free for 10 users and whatever, or if we, you know, take whatever Figma costs and then we blend it with the Adobe suite, ok, we would get this many more Figma users.
- ▶ 1:34:20 Jason Calacanis But we know when we get Figma users, then we get non-designers to pay for it.
- ▶ 1:34:37 Jason Calacanis But when you look at Figma, like, I got a Figma account, like people who are doing, giving feedback on designs, the business side, the sales side can get into Figma.
- ▶ 1:34:49 Jason Calacanis So I think you're opening up the aperture of who design software is for with Figma.
- ▶ 1:35:10 Jason Calacanis So that's what I think is going to happen with Figma.
- ▶ 1:35:11 Jason Calacanis It's like, everybody's going to have a Figma account in the future.
- ▶ 1:37:36 Jason Calacanis Figma will be in this category.