Autodesk

Autodesk is the software company that acquired PlanGrid in 2018 for $875 million, according to Tracy Young on PlanGrid, TigerEye, and Building a Company Deliberately. The episode uses the acquisition less as a financial endpoint than as the context for what Tracy Young and Ralph Goody later wanted to study and change.

After leaving Autodesk in March 2020, Young and Goody expected to take a long family cruise, but COVID canceled that plan. The unexpected pause gave them time to examine PlanGrid’s operating history, which became part of the foundation for TigerEye and Second-Time Founder Operating Judgment.

Connections

• PlanGrid - acquired company.
• Tracy Young and Ralph Goody - founders who worked through the post-acquisition period.
• Post-Acquisition Founder Identity - concept extended by the source.
• TigerEye - later company shaped by the post-Autodesk reflection period.