Adobe

“Very few companies really change their underlying business model once they have a certain scale and then live to tell about it, right? We know the names of the companies that have done this, like Netflix went from DVDs to streaming, Adobe you know, from box so…”

“A lot of people who taught web design and Photoshop were using our courses, and they were bringing it into their schools and into their companies, so we'd be installed in all of Apple, all of Adobe, all of Microsoft, all of Google, and the employees were start…”

“And we were having Adobe sending their employees to us. Martha Stewart was sending employees to us.”

“They're really not. I mean... They're very focused on other aspects of their business, and that was made abundantly clear in the antitrust process to all the regulators, too.”

“Our lawyers said that it would almost certainly go through.”

“Shortly after we did this interview, and about a year after the deal with Adobe fell through, Figma filed for an IPO.”