{"id":609453,"date":"2026-04-17T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:59:09","slug":"anthropic-cpo-leaves-figmas-board-after-reports-he-will-offer-a-competing-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609453\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic CPO leaves Figma&#8217;s board after reports he will offer a competing product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Krieger, Anthropic\u2019s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His departure was disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the publicly traded $10 billion company the same day that The Information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/briefings\/exclusive-anthropic-preps-opus-4-7-model-ai-design-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> Anthropic\u2019s next model, Opus 4.7, will include design tools that could compete with Figma\u2019s primary offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figma is the developer of a popular tool for user experience designers who build interfaces for websites and apps. The company has collaborated closely with Anthropic to integrate the frontier lab\u2019s AI models into its products as assistants for its users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krieger, who previously co-founded Instagram and the AI-powered news app Artifact, became the top product executive at Anthropic in 2024 and joined the board of Figma less than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krieger\u2019s departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/01\/saas-in-saas-out-heres-whats-driving-the-saaspocalypse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SaaSpocalypse<\/a> \u2014 that the largest AI labs will come to dominate software businesses, a thesis that has rocked public markets at times this year. For example, iShares\u2019s primary software ETF, IGV, is down nearly 18% this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic, meanwhile, is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/15\/anthropic-shrugs-off-vc-funding-offers-valuing-it-at-800b-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">turning down investors<\/a> who want to buy into the company at $800 billion \u2014 more than double the valuation from its most recent round at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But companies like Anthropic and OpenAI still have to prove their ultra-capable models can truly replicate the domain experience and relationships of established software brands. Figma\u2019s stock price is up 5% since Krieger\u2019s departure was disclosed, though we\u2019ll see what happens with the next Opus release.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 13-15, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Krieger, Anthropic\u2019s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,1930,276,277,49,48,28050,20132,229740,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-609453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-figma","15":"tag-in-brief","16":"tag-mike-krieger","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}