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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Adobe comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:12 Ben Gilbert His classmates are famed computer scientist Alan Kay, Jim Clark of Netscape and Silicon Graphics, and John Warnock, who founded Adobe.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:08 Ben Gilbert And to contextualize who else makes eighteen billion dollars in revenue, General Mills, Adobe, and Halliburton.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:07:35 Ben Gilbert Especially paired with, Lightroom has this great AI feature called Denoise that they launched and is now rolled out in production.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:41 Ben Gilbert This includes Adobe.
- ▶ 2:43:43 Ben Gilbert You downloading an Adobe app?
- ▶ 2:43:48 Ben Gilbert You don't know it, but Google just paid Adobe a bunch of money.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:52:25 Ben Gilbert Shantanu at Adobe.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:25:13 Ben Gilbert There's a chance this thing's worth more than American Express, or Goldman Sachs, or Adobe, or Pepsi, or Disney, or Qualcomm, or AT&T.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 45:53 David Rosenthal Andrew goes and fires up Photoshop.
- ▶ 51:25 David Rosenthal You get to Photoshop it as much as you want.
- ▶ 1:40:15 David Rosenthal Flash games.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:43 Ben Gilbert Think JavaScript, CSS, eventually, you know, Java and Flash.
- ▶ 2:33:17 Ben Gilbert And of course, anyone that had big legacy applications for Mac and Windows, so Adobe is a great example of, they're gonna keep that up forever.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:17:16 David Rosenthal John Warnock, who started Adobe.
- ▶ 2:33:18 Ben Gilbert So today we're very familiar with Suite Creative Suite over at Adobe.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:04:46 Ben Gilbert and so Lightroom shipped this unbelievable
- ▶ 2:05:02 Ben Gilbert You open up Lightroom, you select the photos, you can even select, like, ones that don't seem noisy to you, and you come back, and it's like, unless you crank the setting way up, they look totally realistic, it doesn't look overly AI'd,…
- ▶ 2:05:17 Ben Gilbert So huge kudos to the Adobe team.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:31 Ben Gilbert But I always think a reasonable comparison here is to compress a zillion-layer Photoshop file.
- ▶ 1:20:37 Ben Gilbert For anybody that's ever dealt with, oh, I've got a three gigabyte Photoshop file.
- ▶ 1:20:46 Ben Gilbert And the JPEG is, in many ways, more useful as a compressed facsimile of the original layers comprising the Photoshop file.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:39:22 Mitch Lasky You have John Warnock, who goes on to found Adobe.
- ▶ 2:09:02 Mitch Lasky It's like now you've got, you know, incredible tech tools and technology Maya and advanced Photoshop tools and all of these other things that are just capable of sort of accelerating that process.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 3:31:29 Ben Gilbert You can view my Photoshop capabilities on full display there.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:15 Miles Grimshaw Amazon, Microsoft, Shopify, Adobe, Square, like they're all crossover.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:28 Jason Calacanis Ok, you know, Twilio's or Adobe's come out.
- ▶ 1:31:30 Jason Calacanis I just bought Adobe this week when they bought Figma.
- ▶ 1:31:42 Ben Gilbert And they're like, oh no, Adobe's admitting defeat.
- ▶ 1:31:44 Ben Gilbert And that, like, they can't innovate in-house, or, and to me, I, I look at it like, Adobe has customer channel, and it was foretold five plus years ago that they were not going to build the next Figma.
- ▶ 1:32:11 Ben Gilbert Um, and obviously all the product stuff, but if they can get that through Adobe's channel, like, I think that is an absolute win-win acquisition.
- ▶ 1:32:42 Jason Calacanis I added to that analysis is, if you're not going to win the war, and you can build an alliance, and then fight another war, like, they've just removed the downside of Figma creating Photoshop.
- ▶ 1:32:57 Ben Gilbert I'd be concerned for Adobe if Fig, they didn't buy Figma.
- ▶ 1:34:05 Jason Calacanis If we make Figma free for 10 users and whatever, or if we, you know, take whatever Figma costs and then we blend it with the Adobe suite, ok, we would get this many more Figma users.
- ▶ 1:34:25 Jason Calacanis So right now Adobe
- ▶ 1:34:30 David Rosenthal Right, only designers pay Adobe.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:44 Brendan Eich Java failed and Flash eventually failed.
- ▶ 1:03:38 Brendan Eich Oh, at the time Firefox has a custom Adobe deal.