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Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:51 Harry Stebbings You said to me before about kind of Figma and Adobe being seen as competitive. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:59 Harry Stebbings You said it's a threat to the whole creative cloud. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Jason Lemkin Is it XD or something?
- ▶ 56:55 Jason Lemkin I, uh, it can happen, but you need, you know, it's funny when I was at Adobe going back in time, Adobe wasn't really growing. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:15 Jason Lemkin Even, I mean, I guess it's under a P and then Adobe.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:47 Harry Stebbings There's kind of two opposing campuses, Tom, I think, which is like having interviewed many different people on both sides, which is really interesting actually having the different perspectives, but those are thinking it's like a…
Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:28 Sarah Tavel And so there, you know, if you are Notion, if you are Adobe, instead of having to adopt a new product product to do image generation or a new product to do kind of summarization of content, you can just use Notion or Adobe and get access…
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:42 Girish Mathrubootham میں خود یو آئی ڈیزائن نہیں کرتا میں ابھی بھی خود فوٹو شاپ یا فگما پر کام نہیں کر سکتا تو میں لوگوں کے ساتھ کام کرتا ہوں اس لئے مجھے لگتا ہے میرا کام کرنے کا طریقہ ہمیشہ سے ہی شاید مجھے نہیں پتا مجھے لگتا ہے کہ میں ورشوں میں ایک آنر بن سکا…
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:59 David Clark Is an interesting one with, with Figma and Adobe.
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:12 Harry Stebbings Adobe, Microsoft, Nvidia are moving faster than ever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:46 Jean-Michel Lemieux You talk about Adobe.
Brendon Cassidy: Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires | E1124 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:19 Brendon Cassidy There's no comps there for like Salesforce or Oracle or Adobe or whatever, right?
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:23 Frank Quattrone And doing the second offering for a company that had been taken public by like Hambrick and Quist or Robert and Stevens, like Adobe, we did Adobe second deal.
- ▶ 38:03 Harry Stebbings You know, it wasn't Figma and Adobe, but you know, the Adobe Figma deal ended up being a thirty billion dollar deal for Figma by the time it would have converted.
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:05 Sean Murray Because every once in a while, you're going to want to take down Adobe as a customer. 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:16 Harry Stebbings Well, I think to that point, though, like, you know, Figma today correlates to about a thirty billion dollar price with the appreciation of Adobe's stock price.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:08 Keith Rabois Is competitive with Adobe's products. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Jason Lemkin Um, and then I accidentally sold my company Echo Sign too early to Adobe in 2011.
- ▶ 1:02:26 Jason Lemkin Maybe Adobe can't buy Figma, but maybe Google can. 2 times in the scene
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings I talked with the heads of product from Adobe, LinkedIn, and Spotify, and we covered everything from LLM predictions in 2024 to how product teams should adopt AI.
- ▶ 0:56 Scott Belsky I was the founder of a company called Behance back in the day, and we were acquired by Adobe, um, for the last, uh, six years or so. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04 Scott Belsky I, I served as chief product officer for about five years overseeing the creative cloud business.
- ▶ 8:26 Scott Belsky You know, when you're trying to do generative fill in Photoshop and imagine what's behind an object or, you know, extending the frame of a photo, hallucination is actually a feature.
- ▶ 18:04 Harry Stebbings I was going to ask you, each of you have incredible amounts of data, you know, LinkedIn, Adobe, Spotify, insane amounts of user data.
- ▶ 24:47 Scott Belsky You know, we had our design team actually build a team within that, um, did all of the early developments of Firefly.
- ▶ 28:00 Scott Belsky We have the data, you know, no one should build a better imaging model than Adobe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:23 Scott Belsky Like, you know, Firefly doesn't even know who Spider-Man is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 Scott Belsky Because, you know, when someone comes into Photoshop and they have an image that they want to change, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:22 Scott Belsky People might not want to even download Photoshop, in which case that's why we brought these capabilities to Firefly as a standalone app as well.
- ▶ 37:29 Scott Belsky I'd love to take, you know, on behalf of Adobe, I'd love to take the credit of like moving super fast, you know, and I do think we executed well, but I also think that there's some nuances of this, this platform shift in particular that do… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:23 Scott Belsky We have this, uh, tune your own model capabilities now for Firefly, where
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:55 Harry Stebbings Adobe, everyone says, like, oh, Adobe moved very fast, and like, speed of movement. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 Des Traynor Previously, you'd just be like, oh, I have this vision in my head, and then whenever I, you know, go to pick up my mouse and open up, like, Photoshop, it falls apart.
- ▶ 57:54 Des Traynor I think you're going to see Adobe. 3 times in the scene
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:42 David Meyer I met with John Koontz and he, he was at Adobe in the great days, you know, in product.
- ▶ 1:11:47 David Meyer He ran product for a lot of Creative Suite stuff.
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Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11 Matthieu Rouif And while we were at this small startup being acquired, but the U S where they were sleeping, our designer was off and tell myself, well, I'm good with Photoshop.
- ▶ 21:58 Matthieu Rouif I think you can find ways to go around that the hacking, but I mean, I mean, the history of, of software is kind of famous for Photoshop, like people hacking Photoshop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:34 Harry Stebbings Like, suddenly you've got, you know, Canva moving into other people's space, Adobe moving into other people's space, you moving up. 4 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:19 Harry Stebbings But your notions of the world, your Adobe's of the world have moved faster than ever on integrating AI very well, and actually disregarded a lot of, I'm sure, existing product strategy, I'm sure existing roadmap in favor of moving fast,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:32 Guillermo Rauch The best example would be potentially mid-journey to Photoshop or to something like that.
- ▶ 56:41 Guillermo Rauch Incremental addition of AI, like Firefly and tool, or like you select and whatever, it seems high quality, well-considered, uh, it gets the job done, like it's strictly in a measurable basis, like better, but there's a chance that like,…
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:19 Christian Kleinerman I love what Adobe has been doing with their products and, and how they've integrated Gen AI. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 23:13 Alex Lebrun You mentioned Adobe. 3 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:50 Nikhil Basu Trivedi Frame.io was acquired by Adobe for, for 1.3 billion dollars a couple years ago.
Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:04 Harry Stebbings It's, I'm not, not less so on the Facebooks of the world, but more the Microsofts and the Adobe's win.
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:41 Harry Stebbings Adobe or does it favor the next generation creative cloud company? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Harry Stebbings Adobe or does it favor the next generation creative cloud company?
- ▶ 22:42 Howie Liu It's amazing for existing Photoshop users in a way that I think, uh, you know, I personally would be willing to pay a lot more money for.
- ▶ 24:35 Harry Stebbings When we look at Adobe speed of execution, Google in many ways speed of execution, for you as Airtable State, do you think you can move as fast as startups can?
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:08 Harry Stebbings Or is it actually Adobe? 4 times in the scene
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:34 Harry Stebbings You look at Microsoft, you look at Adobe, and how Adobe are integrating into core products and product suite.
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:22 Harry Stebbings And my thinking more and more is, incumbents who are fast moving, like Microsoft who are incorporating, you know, into PowerPoint, like Adobe who are incorporating into all of their suite of products, they will take 90% of the gains,…
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:17 Vince Hankes Adobe's got the content creation in their product already.
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:02 Tomasz Tunguz Adobe I think is, uh, doesn't have, um, doesn't have the recognition recognition it deserves.
- ▶ 53:08 Tomasz Tunguz When it comes to using generative, I think about like the applications in Photoshop, they launched a product called Firefly.
- ▶ 53:08 Tomasz Tunguz When it comes to using generative, I think about like the applications in Photoshop, they launched a product called Firefly.
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:31 Ariel Cohen Our biggest customers would sign up with us, like, customers like Netflix, Heineken, Adobe, sign with us on these times where people were not traveling because, again, change management,
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- ▶ 41:38 Harry Stebbings Now we're going to move to one of my favorite product lines, Scott Belsky, CPO at Adobe.
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker So we had to, I think, recreate over a 100,000 pages, um, with like Photoshop and InDesign where we had to hire a team of designers, uh, on Upwork yet again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker So we had to, I think, recreate over a 100,000 pages, um, with like Photoshop and InDesign where we had to hire a team of designers, uh, on Upwork yet again. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:06 Jason Lemkin You are probably not joining Microsoft or Adobe or whatever, and those took forever.
- ▶ 31:28 Jason Lemkin You had to be one of these people that's like, I just can't fit in at an Adobe or, or, or, or, or Microsoft or whatever.
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- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings And that's why Fortune, 500 companies like Adobe, Unilever, Heineken, and startups like
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings And that's why Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, Unilever, Heineken, and startups like Carter, Notion, Patreon, and Canva have made the switch to Trip Actions.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:02 Jason Lemkin Um, look, I came out of a, you know, I came out of a second generation SaaS company now called Adobe Sign, and I had, you know, we, we hit a million a month when we sold to Adobe, twelve million a year, growing a hundred percent, and I…
- ▶ 13:02 Jason Lemkin Um, look, I came out of a, you know, I came out of a second generation SaaS company now called Adobe Sign, and I had, you know, we, we hit a million a month when we sold to Adobe, twelve million a year, growing a hundred percent, and I…
- ▶ 1:12:41 Jason Lemkin What did you think when you made my own startups doing over 200,000,010 years later at Adobe, these things are hard to kill.
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- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings And that's why Fortune, 500 companies like Adobe, Unilever, Heineken, and startups like
- ▶ 32:31 Harry Stebbings And that's why Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, Unilever, Heineken, and startups like Carter, Notion, Patreon, and Canva have made the switch to Trip Actions.
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- ▶ 39:52 Mike Mignano I think what these products are trying to do is, and this is my perspective, they're trying to be Adobe, right? 4 times in the scene
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:40 Logan Bartlett or Adobe or someone like that.
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- ▶ 8:29 Wesley Chan Like, you know, like you look at Photoshop, you look at Office and look at these other companies.
- ▶ 13:03 Wesley Chan You're a Photoshop competitor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Wesley Chan In her, in her, uh, in her high school was that like, you know, people shouldn't be taking four years of yearbook class so that they can like, you know, learn how to use Adobe products so that they can build, you know, your book in the…
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- ▶ 7:02 Des Traynor And in the, like, it might be like a year, year and a half or in Figma's case, as you said, like, um, two plus years, I think anyone who's like, right, like let's say Adobe probably saw Figma and they're probably smart enough to go, wow,…
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- ▶ 1:40 Harry Stebbings Now we're gonna start today with one of the OGs of products, Scott Belsky, CPO at Adobe, dropping his wisdom on what it takes to make a really great product review happen.
Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:15 Kayvon Beykpour And two, I think what he's achieved at Adobe is incredible. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:31 Kayvon Beykpour If you think of all the like AI ML driven stuff they're doing with Photoshop and premiere, um, just absolutely incredible.
- ▶ 48:31 Kayvon Beykpour If you think of all the like AI ML driven stuff they're doing with Photoshop and premiere, um, just absolutely incredible.
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- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Backed by Emergence Capital, EchoSign was acquired by Adobe, and is Adobe Sign as we know it today.
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Backed by Emergence Capital, EchoSign was acquired by Adobe, and is Adobe Sign as we know it today.
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- ▶ 3:36 Harry Stebbings So, how did you come to lead some of the most powerful product talks with the likes of Adobe most recently, obviously, today? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:30 Scott Belsky When I came back to Adobe four years ago in this chief product officer role, I looked at products like Photoshop that literally opened up with a blank black page of, you know, just nothingness, right?
- ▶ 10:30 Scott Belsky When I came back to Adobe four years ago in this chief product officer role, I looked at products like Photoshop that literally opened up with a blank black page of, you know, just nothingness, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:32 Harry Stebbings How do you as a product leader today with Adobe balance between what's generating revenue today and then innovating enough for the future? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 Scott Belsky And, you know, now fast forward, you know, when you open up Photoshop, you can create a cloud document. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:20 Harry Stebbings What recent company product strategy, other than Adobe, have you been most impressed with, and why specifically?
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- ▶ 31:58 Kyle Parrish And we also know, hey, we've got Adobe right out there.
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- ▶ 12:33 Eugene Wei He might have an animation of Photoshop rendering a photo on a power PC versus another computer.
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- ▶ 28:27 Nick Mehta And she's like, Adobe,
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- ▶ 26:12 Chris Fralic Many of the companies that I've worked with over 15 years, one of the times that I kind of took pride in, in not making a distinction between observing and being a board member was one of our companies was acquired by Adobe.
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- ▶ 5:22 Alexis Ohanian Okay, so surely one of your fans is going to Photoshop a barrister wig on a photo view so we can all enjoy what could have been, right?
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