When you contemplate business decisions you don’t get to consider illegal actions as your opportunity cost.
Like if you’re selling copper plumbing fixtures you can’t be like well if we were selling kilos of cocaine instead our prospects for higher margins would be different. It’s not even useful as a thought experiment.
Similarly, the value of Figma to a company that will use the purchase to create a monopoly position is higher than it would be to a general investor or public market. That’s because owning monopolies is more profitable.
But they’re also illegal. So I don’t give a fuck. And the fact that the founders are sad that it’s less profitable to do business without unlawful transactions isn’t relevant to anything.
Like if you’re selling copper plumbing fixtures you can’t be like well if we were selling kilos of cocaine instead our prospects for higher margins would be different. It’s not even useful as a thought experiment.
Similarly, the value of Figma to a company that will use the purchase to create a monopoly position is higher than it would be to a general investor or public market. That’s because owning monopolies is more profitable.
But they’re also illegal. So I don’t give a fuck. And the fact that the founders are sad that it’s less profitable to do business without unlawful transactions isn’t relevant to anything.