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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by vlovich123 on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:56PM (#38688919)
Being an investor doesn’t necessarily entitle you to information/leverage. For example, Apple earlier had plenty of board members from competitors & they would excuse themselves from certain discussions. Similarly, an investment doesn’t guarantee you a board seat. So there’s all sorts of ways to structure things and it’s all a negotiation (e.g. the break up fee could have been a 2B investment instead or something).

Anyway, I agree this turned out phenomenally well for Figma and if I were an employee I’d be really happy about how this all turned out both for Figma and the industry (modulo the delay in cashing out).

Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by invig on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @01:45AM (#38692619)
As a conflicted board member you would have access to the information, you just wouldn't participate in the conversation / decision making.