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The founder and CEO of InVision saw the siege coming.
His successful user interface design startup was growing fast, having built a product that some expected to put Adobe, the juggernaut of the design industry, back on its heels. But Adobe was working on a next-generation app of its own, and another upstart, Figma, was gaining momentum with software that could be a game changer. So InVision’s CEO, Clark Valberg, decided to get lunch with Figma’s founder, Dylan Field.