Adobe, every mention
46 scenes (2023), the whole family · ← back to Adobe
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2023 anyone Harry Stebbings 115Jason Lemkin 86Scott Belsky 29Rory O'Driscoll 16Wesley Chan 13Omer Shai 9Kayvon Beykpour 6Des Traynor 5Mike Mignano 4Mike Cannon-Brookes 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Adobe comes up
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.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 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,
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Now, dropping this knowledge in today's episode is product leaders from Adobe, Airbnb, Stripe, Google, Twitter, and this episode is one to bookmark and keep so many incredible nuggets of wisdom in here.
- ▶ 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.