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The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 54:00 Anish Acharya So if you look at Photoshop, it's a fantastic business. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 21:43 Marc Andreessen Um, and, you know, and, and this is graphics like, you know, three D graphics for gaming or for CAD cam or for, you know, anything else, you know, Photoshop or for anything that involves, you know, lots of visuals.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 14:24 Benedict Evans And somebody like memed, I'm going to say Photoshop, but of course it wouldn't have been Photoshopped, turned him into a Buddhist monk wearing like an orange, like an orange outfit.
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
- ▶ 5:13 unnamed speaker I have, I have what used to be a very complex manual Photoshop process.
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 51:14 Nathan Labenz Um, now with the new nano banana from Google, you have this like basically Photoshop level ability to just say, Hey, take this thumbnail.
What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)
- ▶ 24:29 Olivia Moore I've seen it described as kind of like Photoshop, but with, 2 times in the scene
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 30:35 Marc Andreessen Um, and then the scenario here would be, you know, Photoshop just adds AI photo editing and you're done, right? 3 times in the scene
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 13:45 Sinead Bovell And then of course the, the Photoshop part towards the end. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:36 Danny Postma Photoshop shaped up this whole industry where suddenly you could make photos and you're adjusting it afterwards. 4 times in the scene
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 2:41 Guy Parsons It doesn't have, you know, buttons and all the kind of controls you might expect when you log into something like Photoshop.
- ▶ 10:45 Guy Parsons Again, that's almost like an entire new field of exploration, because it's not combining the image with the other, with like your words in the way you would expect something like Photoshop to do it.
- ▶ 20:27 Guy Parsons Actually, I kind of think it's a big opportunity for, like, the photoshops of this world, because those are tools that presuppose you have some kind of original image to be able to, like, manipulate, whereas now there's a huge amount of,…
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 19:18 Steph Smith Yeah, it's, it's a tool, as you said, but the reason I asked if you were fungible is because I just, I really wonder how this progresses in terms of we know it's going to be somewhat of a democratizing force because now a bunch of people…
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 26:10 Karen X. Cheng In painting is like magic Photoshop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:47 Steph Smith Yeah, it's, it's a tool, as you said, but the reason I asked if you were fungible is because I just, I really wonder how this progresses in terms of we know it's going to be somewhat of a democratizing force because now a bunch of people…
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 39:38 John Riccitiello Photoshop, et cetera.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 5:16 Steven Sinofsky Because making charts was this like ridiculously complicated thing where you had to like basically use essentially like a Photoshop level debugger to make your chart, and Chart Wizard all of a sudden was like, whoa, we can make charts.
- ▶ 56:49 Steven Sinofsky And then in Office XP, we were like this, we did a bunch of UI work with a thing like, more like Photoshop, these sort of task pane interface.
- ▶ 1:08:30 Steven Sinofsky Our use of the Assistant was rooted in those ideas, but like so often, like the ability to draw something in Photoshop, or Director, or, or whatever your modern prototyping tool is, and, and make it in code that can ship to hundreds of…
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 1:31:08 Ken Kocienda Let's say the example of, of me working with Boss Orting on the iPhone keyboard, and so I was coming from the project primarily from an engineering direction, he was coming from the project primarily from a design direction, but Boss was…
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 5:21 unnamed speaker Like at Tesla, the labeling software is, it almost looks like Photoshop.
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 26:53 Benedict Evans And the Photoshop. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
- ▶ 4:16 Robert Stromberg No, it was a, it was a visual image of Photoshop, Photoshopped image. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 13:55 Renato Valdez-Olmos Like there's no Salesforce for, for, for, for caregivers or no Photoshop for caregivers.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 24:15 Steven Sinofsky Are on the back of their S curve, and they're in sustain mode, and the last thing they're going to do is rewrite them, which is something, frankly, back in the Windows eight days, we always knew was the case, and the focus we needed was on…
- ▶ 29:40 Benedict Evans There is, the first is there is this core group of people who live in Photoshop or live in Excel or
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 18:16 Christina Xu I think it's partially playfulness when, when you have the dog years or whatever in Snapchat, like that's mostly about playfulness, but part of it is also just, it's, it's Photoshop culture for your own face, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 5:42 Steven Sinofsky And anybody who's used Photoshop knows that, like, once you know a region, you can do a lasso selection around it, and Photoshop has gotten increasingly better. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 33:57 Chris Dixon I mean, that Photoshop would be sitting on ten million desks, and, you know, back in the typography era.
a16z Podcast | Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 5:30 Stuart Butterfield So IRC was the one thing you had to open alongside whatever your role specific bit of software was, and that role specific bit of software might have been, um, Excel, or it might be Photoshop, or it might be, uh, our, because we were…
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 21:56 Benedict Evans We've gone from having a network drive with a more or less chaotic or sensible folder structure, and you could put everything in the project folder, and it might be Excel or Photoshop or Illustrator or any other thing or Visio or…
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 19:17 unnamed speaker A new compiler, a new debugger, a new set of productivity tools is emerging on this side where the labeling tools get to approach the complexity of Photoshop.
DJ Kleinbaum
- ▶ 12:17 DJ Kleinbaum It's not unlike any other application like Photoshop where you're going to use the menu system to start, but any power user is just going to learn the hotkeys.