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This Changes Retail Forever! | Who is Rohan Manthani? | Streamoid | Startup Stories Podcast Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:41 Rohan Manthani And so, you know, the, the same person who is, you know, loves this creative process of, you know, looking around for inspiration, bringing that into the designs is also forced to sit in an, you know, with a, you know, Adobe Illustrator

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:31 Cliff Weitzman Um, when I'm saying design, I mean the actual grind of sitting in Photoshop, sitting in Figma, sitting in Illustrator, sitting in Canva, and pixel perfect making things.

Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004 May 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:36 Amelia Ibarra Well, the irony too is, if, if Adobe Premiere tomorrow, I, I've talked on the spot before how I like some of the agentic, um, features of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 23, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 35:53 Jason Lemkin Like, actually, I learned this week, AI and Illustrator is great. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:23 Jason Lemkin Does that mean you can build what you can build in Figma, let alone Illustrator? 2 times in the scene

Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions Apr 22, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 17:12 Amelia LeRutte Well, Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator is still the gold standard. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:41 Amelia LeRutte Unlike vibing in, unlike, you know, firing up Photoshop or Illustrator, that just takes a lot more clicks because those tools are a lot more complex, right?

a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand. Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:56 Ben Francis It was the school that I went to was, for whatever reason, that obviously accelerated tech, um, because I had access to the creative suite, so I had, I remember Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, I can't remember what else was in…

This app made over $1M Aug 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:46 Ania Wysocka And so I took these ideas and sketches from my notebooks, and then I taught myself how to basically create them as wireframes in Photoshop and illustrator.

Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked Aug 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:15 Jordi Hays To build Photoshop and illustrator, which were primarily focused on the creation and editing of single files were the completely wrong tools for the job sketch, which was released in. 2 times in the scene

He Built MY Startup Idea and Sold It in 8 Days ($15K Side Hustle) Jul 25, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:15 Josh Pigford So, like, what I'm doing is while I'm sort of vibe coding this thing, and the, the AI is running in the background building this stuff, I'm an illustrator, which, you know, you could be an illustrator, Figma, Canva, whatever, designing… 2 times in the scene

Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris Jul 2, 2025 · 3 mentions

Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator Mar 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:23 Garry Tan Yeah, do you remember, I guess, I mean, a lot of people were still using, like, I guess even Photoshop or Illustrator for, you know, this type of, you know, high fidelity design.

Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw Jan 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:33 Steve Ruiz Flash, and before then, you know, Adobe Illustrator, and before then, all the way back.

E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update Dec 8, 2023 · 3 mentions

Adobe’s AI Revolution: Scott Belsky on Firefly, Photoshop & the Future of Creativity Dec 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:52 Scott Belsky That context bar actually was something that the designers put in our Illustrator on the iPad product because they were trying to figure out a way to have Illustrator on the iPad without all the chrome, without all the buttons and all the… 2 times in the scene

The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky Nov 10, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:15 Scott Belsky So we actually just announced, uh, the other day, a new capability in Adobe Illustrator, which is probably the most popular product for illustrators called generative recolor. 2 times in the scene

HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show Oct 20, 2023 · 1 mention

550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital Aug 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:34 Ricardo Michel Reyes Uh, so, uh, one of the first breaks I wanna work with when I was younger was just that, like how to control all of the artistic tools like Photoshop or Illustrator, all these things.

He Built A $600,000 One Person Business (with video editing) Mar 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:07 unnamed speaker It started off actually as I opened up Adobe Illustrator junior high school to make like these presentations for some business class I was in, and then that evolved into me getting a camera and trying out photography, and then photography…

The Art of Scrappiness Mar 23, 2023 · 1 mention

An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma) Jan 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:46 Yuhki Yamashita And maybe you're creating that micro interaction in After Effects, or maybe you're kind of doing that intricate, like, illustration in Illustrator, or, you know, editing Rasta in Photoshop, right?

Building the Right Product, At the Right Time, For the Right People - with Jack Butcher Nov 23, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:55 Jack Butcher You know, if you were a graphic designer in the sixties, you have this like wooden drawing board where you're like sliding rules across and, you know, taking out letter press type forms and gluing them on one by one from that transition to…

Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust Sep 19, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:31 Benedict Evans Not a graphic designer, but you put this in sort of very simple terms is people were using illustrator and or Photoshop to comp up images of, um, what an interface should look like.
  • ▶ 6:55 Benedict Evans Whereas this moves it to the browser and gives you this whole, it does less than Photoshop or Illustrator on one axis, but it has this whole bunch of new stuff on another axis and so pulls this whole new market in.
  • ▶ 12:57 Benedict Evans You know, it is going to grow, expand and take over all of Photoshop and all of Illustrator.

HOW They're Competing With ADOBE! ft. Satej Sirur, Founder @Rocketiumapp Mar 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:46 Satej Sirur They are, 99% of them will use Adobe software, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, that sort of thing.

Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens Jan 11, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:16 Scott Belsky And now we have Photoshop on the web and Illustrator on the web, you know, that's the direction that things are going.

Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin Sep 6, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:17 Lynda Weinman Um, while I was there, I taught Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, multimedia, um, interactive design, and ultimately web design when I, when I taught myself how to do graphics for the web.
  • ▶ 21:16 Bruce Heavin I was in her class, and she taught Photoshop, she taught Painter, and she taught Illustrator.

MFM #172 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs, Indie Businesses Making Millions, & How to Grow a Podcast Apr 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:30 Shaan Puri Like, first of all, take the whole Adobe suite and do the Photopea for After Effects, do the Photopea for Illustrator, Photopea for, for the whole suite, right?

Episode 529 | A Pricing Deep Dive with Slingshot Dec 29, 2020 · 3 mentions

LogoPackage Sells $80k One Time To Fuel New SaaS Tool MVP Aug 14, 2020 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:31 Michael Bruny-Groth It's, um, an extension for Adobe Illustrator.
  • ▶ 2:52 Michael Bruny-Groth Um, it was sort of a bundle of actions and scripts and things that people kind of had to manually install inside of Adobe illustrator. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:46 Nathan Latka Well, yeah, so let's, so you, again, you were hustling, you were hustling, you got some early revenue, you got your first four customers, you made some money, you then use that money, um, to pay five grand to develop or to build out the…
  • ▶ 12:07 Michael Bruny-Groth So essentially, like I said, the extension for Adobe illustrator exports a package of logo files, uh, that are all sorts of variations and that sort of thing.
  • ▶ 18:01 Michael Bruny-Groth Uh, I went to forums for Adobe Illustrator scripting, right?

Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs Feb 24, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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…

Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018) Dec 31, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:25 Perry Chen Yeah, there was some hand drawing, or Charles would go into Photoshop or Illustrator and, and kind of like, you know, do some rough mock-ups of stuff, and you're getting into detail, like, here's a button, here's a, a video, here's, this…

Kickstarter: Perry Chen Jul 31, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:03 Perry Chen Yeah, there was some hand drawing, or Charles would go into Photoshop or Illustrator and, and kind of like, you know, do some rough mock-ups of stuff, and you're getting into detail, like, here's a button, here's a, a video, here's, this…

20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co Sep 30, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:41 unnamed speaker Analog skills and my digital skills together, because oftentimes I would actually create something in illustrator or Photoshop, like a, just a design or a pattern,

20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster Jun 29, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:51 Wesley Chan You know, I remember talking to Melanie and Cliff, uh, who were the two founders and they just had this vision going today in the world of design with Photoshop, with Adobe InDesign, with Adobe Illustrator, only the people who've spent…

20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva Jun 10, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:01 Melanie Perkins They might create their logo in something like Adobe Illustrator, but then they often have to go backwards and forwards, and it's a really time-consuming, painstaking process of changing your name every time a new person starts, or when a…
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