Adobe has announced it will acquire the much-loved design platform Figma. What does it all mean, and why does everyone hate Adobe so much?


Down Round investigates. (By which we mean we discussed it, with no investigation or reporting whatsoever.)

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Adobe has announced it will acquire the much-loved design platform Figma. What does it all mean, and why does everyone hate Adobe so much? Down Round investigates. (By which we mean we discussed it, with no investigation or reporting whatsoever.) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://downround.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">downround.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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#15 - Adobe: The most hated company on Earth rides again

In this premium ep we discuss Apple's appointment of John Giannandrea's as their head of machine learning and what it might mean for their AI ambitions, Sam Altman enacting CODE RED at OpenAI, and finally chat through Google's move to start selling their proprietary TPU chips.

In this premium ep we discuss Apple's appointment of John Giannandrea's as their head of machine learning and what it might mean for their AI ambitions, Sam Altman enacting CODE RED at OpenAI, and finally chat through Google's move to start selling their proprietary TPU chips.

CODE RED (PREMIUM)

This week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets — the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are booming and an increasingly big part of both tech culture and also gambling culture.

We trace the whole arc: from Hayekian fantasies about prices revealing truth, to the far bigger truth: people just really, really like having a punt.

 

This week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets &mdash; the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are booming and an increasingly big part of both tech culture and also gambling culture.
We trace the whole arc: from Hayekian fantasies about prices revealing truth, to the far bigger truth: people just really, really like having a punt.
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#15 - Adobe: The most hated company on Earth rides again

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