Adobe, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Adobe comes up
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 26:30 Chamath Palihapitiya And he's like, okay, Adobe and Salesforce.
- ▶ 1:04:47 David Friedberg What do you think is the difference between that concept and having artists be required to disclose whether or not they used Adobe Photoshop and the very specific filters that they used in Photoshop or DJs that use specific software to… 3 times in the scene
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 1:01:20 David Sacks He was super, he was short Adobe and a whole bunch of other SaaS companies, and those trades also moved the wrong way on him.
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 6:41 Thomas Laffont It was Adobe by the end of the year.
SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- ▶ 44:05 Jason Calacanis You can Photoshop your legs all you want. 2 times in the scene
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 20:45 unnamed speaker I mean, I'm an, I'm a nerd who used to use Adobe Photoshop as a kid, and Kai's power tools, and I was telling you Bryce-
- ▶ 21:40 unnamed speaker I remember having to buy books on Adobe Photoshop as a kid, and then you'd read them to learn how to remove something from an, from an image, and how to fill it in, and feather, and all this stuff.
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 1:24:16 David Sacks Was a year or two ago when the government held up their acquisition by Adobe for twenty billion dollars, and everyone thought that was a disaster because people thought that was a huge premium to the actual valuation.
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:16:39 Chamath Palihapitiya and I would short an equivalent quantum of Adobe and I would just book the spread and 2 times in the scene
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:14:48 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that they probably look at like Adobe Figma, and they look at the cap table, and they probably just make a judgment that, hey, I don't want these people to be billionaires.
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 33:49 Chamath Palihapitiya And so, and Adobe Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:27 Jason Calacanis We saw the breakup fee with Adobe and Figma.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 26:47 Jason Calacanis 11,000 Acrobat licenses with zero point zero users.
- ▶ 27:44 David Friedberg I do think Adobe has the worst. 4 times in the scene
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 1:11:44 Jason Calacanis They just told the, the corp dev people pencils down, and they are not wanting to spend a year or two on a deal when they have a breakup fee, when they see what happened with Adobe, or they just think, well, why don't we just build it…
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 14:10 David Friedberg There's a bunch of other companies, you know, that don't really fit that bill, like Microsoft probably doesn't fit that bill, Nvidia, Adobe.
Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 31:32 David Sacks How is that different than airbrushing in Photoshop and making the person look completely different?
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 12:08 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look at a whole bunch of other people that are managers, Shantanu Narayan, how has he built Adobe?
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 32:19 Jason Calacanis Everything from Adobe and Figma to other mergers that could be happening are essentially frozen.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 1:17:46 David Friedberg I would argue Figma Adobe. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:46 David Sacks Because it created a new market for web designers, whereas Photoshop was basically for 2 times in the scene
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:19:31 Chamath Palihapitiya One of the emails I got, this is crazy, was from a guy that's like, oh, we've eighty-ninety Photoshop. 2 times in the scene
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 1:00:34 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, there's that very famous email that Steve Jobs sent to Bruce Chisholm, which goes something along the lines of, Dear Bruce, it's come to my attention that Apple never recruits from Adobe, but it seems like Adobe is actively… 2 times in the scene
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 1:35:01 Jason Calacanis Then we got on page maker or whatever.
- ▶ 1:35:12 Jason Calacanis And we got on Photoshop.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 22:53 David Sacks A human creating this in Photoshop would have a lot of layers and every object in that image would have its own layer and you could have a layer for text and just quickly modify the text.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 33:52 David Sacks So we're still waiting to hear from HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoom, Adobe, companies like that.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 36:01 Jason Calacanis Adobe Figma has been called off. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:10 David Friedberg So it feels to me like that's, and I would imagine if I'm Adobe and I'm looking at this Figma deal, do I keep fighting it? 4 times in the scene
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 1:11:51 Jason Calacanis Adobe's twenty billion dollar acquisition of Figma is stalled right now. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:13 Jason Calacanis Removes Figma as a threat to Adobe's Photoshop in Illustrator products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:13 Jason Calacanis Removes Figma as a threat to Adobe's Photoshop in Illustrator products. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:05 Jason Calacanis Adobe has a product XD, competes directly with Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:06 David Sacks Figma could sign an affidavit today saying that we're not going to build Photoshop. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:11 David Sacks We're not making it illustrator.
- ▶ 1:28:48 Jason Calacanis Adobe and Figma, I would say, I would pull a Zuck. 2 times in the scene
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 52:37 David Friedberg We've been using Adobe Photoshop for 30 years to change photographs and change documents.
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 48:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Two days ago, the European Commission and the CMA in the UK said that they're probing Adobe Figma because they have some concerns that it's going to limit competition in the market. 2 times in the scene
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 42:20 Chamath Palihapitiya For example, like, but where is the, I agree with you, like, where's the lawsuit on Adobe Figma?
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 1:06:18 Jason Calacanis Any other thoughts, uh, Freeberg, as we wrap up on that, I wanted to show this AI demo from Adobe Photoshop, you know, every week
- ▶ 1:06:33 Jason Calacanis So what we see here, if you're listening is, uh, you know, taking a Photoshop, creating an area, and then instead of like cutting and pasting it or refining it, you're putting in a text prompt and saying, oh, but, um,
- ▶ 1:09:17 Chamath Palihapitiya My thought on the Adobe thing for what it's worth is like,
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 30:58 David Friedberg Think about old school photographers doing black and white photography with pinhole cameras, and then they come across Adobe Photoshop. 2 times in the scene
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 1:00:27 Jason Calacanis All they do is prompting, photoshopping, and implementing good-looking pictures, and he basically says, this happened overnight, and he had no choice. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Figma really needs to close this acquisition from Adobe.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 1:04:55 David Friedberg And then the, the better, the artist of the 21st century, the 20th century was the best user of Adobe Photoshop. 2 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 45:34 David Sacks Well, it was, it was a pretty big surprise that Adobe bought Figma for twenty billion.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:31:37 David Friedberg If you remember, Kai's power tools was a plugin for Adobe Photoshop came out in 1993, I believe. 4 times in the scene
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 58:57 David Friedberg Um, so it's pretty exciting as these, and remember, like, like we were talking on the AMA the other night, Adobe Photoshop was a tool for photographers, so you didn't have to take the perfect photograph and then print it.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 1:04 Jason Calacanis We had a bomb drop just yesterday, uh, with Adobe agreeing to acquire Figma, uh, the design tool, we'll get into that in a minute, what it actually does, for twenty billion dollars. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 David Friedberg I've been using Adobe Photoshop right around when it first came out, like, 1992. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Yeah, but they have a thing called creative clouds. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Adobe and all of their investors got very addicted to the free cash flow generation of that stock. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Chamath Palihapitiya It is a gargantuan money making business, and so they refused in Creative Cloud to go to that free tier that Figma has. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:12 Jason Calacanis Photoshop is complex, and it's single player. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:54 Jason Calacanis Then this acquisition, if you're going to do it through the lens of future consumer harm, this creates future consumer harm because Figma is not going to compete with Adobe. 7 times in the scene
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 27:36 Jason Calacanis This includes people like Adobe, Datadog, Shopify, Twilio, Workday.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 48:25 Chamath Palihapitiya That was a UPS logo, and it's now, it's now what the shareholders of Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Twitter, uh, Palo Alto Networks, uh, and Adobe have said.
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 13:51 Chamath Palihapitiya How many, how many hours of masterclass Adobe Photoshop did you take to, to get this little joke?