The Story of the Ivy League Dropout Who Made $20 Billion Selling His Firm to Adobe

Dylan Field, CEO and Co-founder of Figma, walks to a morning session during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 7, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

San Francisco-based Dylan Field is now the talk of the technology town. His design-software company Figma has been taken over by the rival Adobe Inc..

Adobe agreed to pay $20 billion for Figma, which Field co-founded with a former Brown University classmate. Figma was valued at $115 million in 2018.