> But if you think "the job" of the entrepreneur is simply to have a good exit, well the world would be gravely impoverished if entrepreneurs in general shared

> But if you think "the job" of the entrepreneur is simply to have a good exit, well the world would be gravely impoverished if entrepreneurs in general shared your view. The job of an entrepreneur is to calculate everything and to make the right decision in every situation. There could be many reasons behind the decision to sell to Adobe for $20B: – Maybe reaching the $20B market cap after an IPO would have taken a very long time for Figma on its own; – Maybe were was an extremely high risk of Adobe acquiring another competitor or building a competitive product in-house; – Maybe the investors wanted the have an exit now, 10 years after the company's creation; – Maybe the founders had other ideas they wanted to work after their vesting with Adobe expires. > The fact that many of the acquiring companies in these stores are still largely controlled by their founders is telling. For some companies the right exit is IPO, for others – acquisitions. But if they took any money from investors, they must have an exit.