Lauren Thomas
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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That's one of the goals.
You know, either you get acquired or, of course, you could go public.
It's got me thinking of a recent case study that we've kind of watched play out in real time.
Figma, this design tech company that at one point was close a couple years ago to being acquired by Adobe.
But then that deal got blocked.
It didn't happen.
Figma remained a standalone business.
And it just IPO'd very recently here.
And it was a pretty successful IPO.
So that's an example of where it was close to being acquired, but then it was able to remain a standalone business for some time.
and now is probably able to unlock more value through the public markets than it would being acquired.
That IPO route will still be there for some, but I think it's very hard nowadays to achieve a scale like Figma did.
Yeah, definitely.
Certainly when I started this job, folks would always tell me you tend to see a burst in the IPO market precedes a burst of activity in the M&A market and in deals.
First, you'll see the wave of IPOs, then you'll see the wave of deals.
It's almost been reversed, I think, in part because there were so many IPOs and
2021 kind of coming out of the bouts of COVID and that pulled forward a lot of demand.
And a lot of those IPOs, unfortunately, kind of fell flat and now are just not doing well and maybe shouldn't be public companies.
And so the narrative has switched in a way.
But in general, I would say the two do tend to move in tandem.
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