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.
By 2021, that valuation had soared to $10 billion in another fundraising round. Figma’s software allows customers to collaborate to design projects together.
Field, dropped out of Brown, took a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and started his software company.
The fellowship offered applicants $100,000 funding if they agreed to drop out of college to pursue entrepreneurial aims….