why aren't all 54 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 5 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Insight
Belsky: Assess hires and founders by exponential progression in successive conversations
“How do you hire people, and how do you find which teams to invest in, and one of the things I always apply is, is this someone whom every conversation is more interesting than the one before it, or is it a replay? You know, most people we actually meet, I don'…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Danny Rimer: Enterprise Software Is Adopting Consumer Selling Metaphors
“So whether it's Dropbox, or Slack, or the Microsoft, the three, six, five efforts, or what Adobe is magnificently doing, a lot of the enterprise is actually moving towards the consumer metaphor to sell software.”
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Adobe has $5B in AI-influenced revenue
“Adobe has five billion of AI influenced revenue.”
Assertion Supported
Belsky: Adobe replaced Photoshop's blank start page with templates and tutorials
“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? And it's like, there was no orientation of what to do now o…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin prepared 100 SaaStr blog posts before leaving Adobe
“And then the day I left Adobe was the day of the first blog post on SaaS. I already had a hundred in the queue, so.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Adobe's shift to the cloud required three years of internal convincing
“Adobe just trying to go to the cloud took three years of convincing everybody, okay?”