Adobe

“And some people are like, oh my gosh, creative pros are going to be replaced. No, no, no, no, they're not. They're just going to find 10 X better solutions. They're going to have that capability to explore more possibilities.”

“So right now, I mean, in Photoshop, we're experimenting with when, you know, instead of just reducing an image and cropping, you can also extend an image. And that's, of course, using generative AI for outpainting.”

“I like asking about something people have learned about themselves that reveal the limitation in how they work. You know, it's a way to test like introspection and when this person hits their limits or struggles, can they be open and introspective or are they …”

“This is something that big companies are actually better at than startups. Which is they don't fire you if the new initiative fails, right? Because then no one at a big company would ever join the new initiative, right? There are exceptions, but no one at Adob…”

“Today the CEOs of Microsoft, Alphabet, Adobe, which is a two hundred fifty billion dollar company, turns out, IBM, which is a hundred seventy billion dollar company, Palo Alto Networks, which is a hundred billion dollar company, even Starbucks, also a hundred …”

“And when I came into Adobe, they had these tenure awards that I was supposed to do every quarter at my all hands. And I was like, wait, I'm celebrating someone for how long they've survived here, as opposed to someone who's come in and made an impact on day tw…”

“Various regulators did not like the deal and had arguments against it. No need to go into those and not, but yeah, the, it was a long process, 16 months.”