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Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:53 Mamoon Hamid And, you know, we thought, obviously, with Adobe Figma, Adobe is that next tier, and even that, um, as you know, you know, um, the story's been told. 2 times in the scene
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:34 Dmitry Gurski It's a program language of, uh, Mercamedia Flash. 2 times in the scene
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:14 Arvind Narayanan it's become easier to, to do that with AI today, but you could have paid someone a hundred dollars to do that with Photoshop, you know, even before AI.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:05 Imran Khan So if you're selling it to Google, if you're selling it to Facebook or selling to Adobe, but you know, if you look at the NAS, I think the US public market, I think what, there's 2000 companies over two billion dollar market cap.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:33 Harry Stebbings And you have Canva offering it, and Adobe offering it, and Sketch offering it, and 10 others.
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:08 Jason Lemkin Honestly, it has to because Figma wasn't even competitive with Adobe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Jason Lemkin Canva is directly destroying creative cloud, ok?
- ▶ 5:28 Jason Lemkin Figma was directly destroying a thirty million dollar product line that Adobe had abandoned, ok, with XD sketch or whatever it's called.
- ▶ 9:46 Jason Lemkin That was the worst 24 months waiting for that Adobe.
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42 Cameron Adams So they were running this thing in Adobe Flash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Harry Stebbings Final one for you before we do a quick fire, but you're always compared or like put in the same category as the 800 pound gorilla of Adobe.
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:50 Val Scholz So I think Canva nowadays is much larger in terms of volume generated to the website than Adobe.
- ▶ 54:15 Harry Stebbings It's against the 800 pound gorilla that is Canva, which has an 800 pound gorilla, which is Adobe.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:11 Danny Rimer And Sketch was the best example of what Adobe, what, sorry, what Figma could become. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:57 Jason Lemkin I think Canva is an existential threat to the whole creative cloud, whole creative cloud.
- ▶ 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