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Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company May 18, 2026 · 1 mention

Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company Feb 23, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 3:51 Guy Raz He had previously founded an early internet business that was focused on web and publishing tools, sort of like an early version of Adobe Acrobat.
  • ▶ 20:03 Guy Raz And this was, it was like what Adobe Acrobat would become. 4 times in the scene

Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand. Nov 17, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 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…

(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp Aug 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:13 Guy Raz The SaaS market, think Salesforce, Adobe, Twilio, HubSpot,

Figma: Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 2:14 Guy Raz And in twenty-twenty-two, Adobe, one of Figma's biggest competitors, offered twenty billion dollars to acquire it.
  • ▶ 21:55 Dylan Field And so we thought maybe there's a way to go and explore many different tools that will let people do the sort of things that you can accomplish in high-end programs such as Photoshop, uh, or three tools, but do them in a way that anyone… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:14 Guy Raz And I guess, fortunately, right, um, right around this time, you were able to hire someone, a lead engineer named Shoku Omoto, who was a guy who worked at a lot of other companies, like, like Adobe, and, and he was identified as somebody…
  • ▶ 55:05 Guy Raz You know, the Adobe's of the world. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:08 Dylan Field Literally, I mean, Adobe came out with Adobe XD, which was their offering, uh, not web-based, but, um, a very solid and, um, interesting desktop application.
  • ▶ 1:00:05 Guy Raz Well-placed product, um, and for a brief moment, you guys had, not brief, but for a moment, you had considered going public, but, but decided against it, and then September of 20 22, Adobe announces they are going to acquire Figma for… 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:19 Dylan Field The chance to continue our work at Figma there, while also doing a lot to help them rethink what could Creative Cloud, you know, other traditional project products look like.
  • ▶ 1:09:44 Guy Raz Um, I mean, the company's last, I mean, two, twenty billion dollar acquisition offer from Adobe is, is quite significant.

Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler Feb 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:46 Michelle Wahler And one of the things that I saw that I wasn't as excited about was all of the Photoshop that was going on.

Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 · 1 mention

ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko Jun 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:44 Marc Ecko Ideas that I ended up eventually seeing when I got into Photoshop, you know, years later.

Etsy: Rob Kalin Oct 30, 2023 · 1 mention

Vuori: Joe Kudla Oct 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:40 Joe Kudla I remember I was sitting on my couch on a Sunday, and I remember I just, I pulled up Photoshop,

Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings Jun 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:03 Tina Roth-Eisenberg And also we had big tech companies come to us and say like, Hey, can we do some organic field trips where people like sort of, you know, we onboard them onto, like we did this with Adobe Express with their software and they're so not…

Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:49 unnamed speaker People would, like, use WordPageMaker or QuarkExpress on a Mac and print out pretty nice layout pages, and then you could photocopy them into zines and then sell them.
  • ▶ 15:53 Ryan Schreiber If you know, Photoshop, which I'll teach you and you know, five HTML tags and you have an FTP client.

WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:12 Matt Mullenweg There was early website publishing software, web services like GeoCities, software like Dreamweaver or FrontPage that would allow you to make, uh, honestly kind of cool for the time websites.

Discord: Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 · 1 mention

KAYAK: Paul English Sep 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:14 Paul English We had a meeting with myself, Lincoln, and Jeff Rago, who's our lead developer, and then Lincoln cranked out a Photoshop version of what I did, but he pretty much ignored my drawing. 2 times in the scene

Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin Sep 6, 2021 · 10 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.
  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 21:16 Bruce Heavin I was in her class, and she taught Photoshop, she taught Painter, and she taught Illustrator.
  • ▶ 31:27 Guy Raz And this was for Macromedia, which I think at the time was making a software like Dreamweaver.
  • ▶ 39:36 Lynda Weinman And Adobe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:08 Bruce Heavin A lot of people who taught web design and Photoshop were using our courses, and they were bringing it into their schools and into their companies, so we'd be installed in all of Apple, all of Adobe, all of Microsoft, all of Google, and the…
  • ▶ 44:08 Bruce Heavin A lot of people who taught web design and Photoshop were using our courses, and they were bringing it into their schools and into their companies, so we'd be installed in all of Apple, all of Adobe, all of Microsoft, all of Google, and the…
  • ▶ 52:29 Guy Raz Yeah, and I mean, you all eventually expanded the classes, and you started adding, like, like all kinds of subjects, not just Photoshop and Final Cut Pro and stuff like that, but like business skills and interviewing skills and finance…

Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018) Aug 16, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:57 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) I, um, I was on a Yahoo messaging chat about music and hip-hop, and some, some person introduced me to a program for recording, a lot of people use it in radio, called Adobe Audition.

Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut Jul 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz The SaaS market, think Salesforce, Adobe, Twilio, HubSpot,

How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp Apr 8, 2021 · 2 mentions

Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019) Mar 1, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:19 Guy Raz And when Melanie went to university to study communications, this was in the mid-two thousands, she started using graphic design and publishing software, programs like Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher, and she was frustrated that the…
  • ▶ 12:28 Melanie Perkins And it had a picture of us beating Microsoft Office, and Adobe, and Google Docs, and a whole bunch of other companies.

Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar Feb 8, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:05 Guy Raz Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Autodesk, Salesforce, Intuit, etc.

Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:21 Sam Yam Yeah, uh, coding is, is what you do at some point, but what you're really putting together are a whole bunch of, like, designs and photoshops, and thinking through the psychology of, like, why a user would do this and that, and so I think…

Dropbox: Drew Houston Nov 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:50 Drew Houston And that was, it was really that I am conversation where, where I settled on the name and I'm just like Photoshopping the logo.

Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard Jun 8, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:53 Holly Thaggard They did have our logo, which I'd created in Photoshop, and I sort of self-taught how to make a label and how to make a barcode, and 2 times in the scene

Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield Jan 30, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:15 Stewart Butterfield On, um, Flash as a technology for delivering the game, which wasn't going to work on mobiles, and, uh, I think in the end that, that really was the nail in the coffin.

Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou Mar 11, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:00 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) I, um, I was on a Yahoo messaging chat about music and hip-hop, and some, some person introduced me to a program for recording, a lot of people use it in radio, called Adobe Audition.

Squarespace: Anthony Casalena Mar 4, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:40 Anthony Casalena Like, that was, like, at the time, Dreamweaver and FrontPage and all that. 2 times in the scene

Canva: Melanie Perkins Jan 28, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:52 Guy Raz And when Melanie went to university to study communications, this was in the mid-two thousands, she started using graphic design and publishing software, programs like Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher, and she was frustrated that the…
  • ▶ 12:02 Melanie Perkins And it had a picture of us beating Microsoft Office, and Adobe, and Google Docs, and a whole bunch of other companies.

Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018) Dec 31, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 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 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 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…
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