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Adobe's market cap is $150bln. At some point, if Figma continued to grow then they might not have been able to make an attractive offer.

That's a problem they felt was worth $20bln to avoid.

Nothing but the cost, marketing, and effort to rebuild yet another design app.

"Why would I use that when I can get figma, XD, or zeplin"

Collaboration software have network effects.