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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Adobe comes up
Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
- ▶ 23:39 Shereen Tippett And long story short, I took an Adobe course on YouTube and
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
- ▶ 36:15 Jensen Huang Maybe Photoshop, for example, or some video imaging system for broadcast.
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 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
Figma: Dylan Field
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 15:47 James Hirschfeld I learned how to use Photoshop.
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Vuori: Joe Kudla
Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 12:06 Jason Citron This was like back when like flash was new and like webcams were kind of new.
KAYAK: Paul English
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 4:05 Ethan Diamond Um, this was also in the days of flash. 2 times in the scene
Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019)
- ▶ 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
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
Dropbox: Drew Houston
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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…