{"id":82595,"date":"2022-09-16T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=82595"},"modified":"2022-09-16T00:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:33:45","slug":"20-billion-figma-deal-is-a-historic-coup-for-startup-investors-in-an-otherwise-miserable-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2022\/20-billion-figma-deal-is-a-historic-coup-for-startup-investors-in-an-otherwise-miserable-year.html","title":{"rendered":"$20 billion Figma deal is a historic coup for startup investors in an otherwise miserable year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wall Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/15\/adobe-to-acquire-design-platform-figma-for-20-billion.html\">hates<\/a> it. Silicon Valley is thrilled. In a year that\u2019s featured exactly zero high-profile tech IPOs and far more headlines about mass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/03\/just-9percent-of-tech-workers-feel-secure-about-their-jobs-right-now.html\">layoffs<\/a> than big funding rounds, Adobe\u2019s $20 billion acquisition of Figma on Thursday is what some might call a narrative violation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/15\/figma-investors-score-historic-coup-with-adobe-deal-in-down-year-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Wall Street hates it. Silicon Valley is thrilled. In a year that\u2019s featured exactly zero high-profile tech IPOs and far more headlines about mass layoffs than big funding rounds, Adobe\u2019s $20 billion acquisition of Figma on Thursday is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82596,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82595\/revisions\/82596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}