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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Adobe comes up
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 43:19 Roman Ugarte And when you think of a power tool in this kind of last generation, I, in my head, picture something a bit like Photoshop, for example, where there are all of these different dials to turn very precisely.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:04:34 Marc Andreessen You know, just take Adobe, like, you know, Photoshop is built a, whatever, a four-year franchise in image editing.
- ▶ 1:04:34 Marc Andreessen You know, just take Adobe, like, you know, Photoshop is built a, whatever, a four-year franchise in image editing. 2 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 5:50 Jason Lemkin So, you know, I, I am a two-time founder who started writing a blog, my God, in 2012, about all the mistakes I made after I sold my startup to Adobe.
- ▶ 44:49 Jason Lemkin You know, one of the first lessons I learned when my last startup was acquired by Adobe, Sam Blonde was one of our sales leaders. 2 times in the scene
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 1:27:30 unnamed speaker Flash.
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 3:09 Lenny Rachitsky Teams at Adobe, Shopify, and top creative agencies use LucidLink to keep their content engine running fast and smooth.
- ▶ 1:29:02 Howie Liu Like if you wanted rounded corners in your UI, you literally took Photoshop, opened it up, created like a rounded corner and pixels, and then put that pixel up into an image that you dropped onto the page at exactly the right position to…
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 25:17 Garrett Lord Like before you needed like somebody that could do Photoshop and take pictures and have created videos.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 33:52 Bret Taylor and they showed you at the time a Photoshop mockup of 2 times in the scene
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- ▶ 4:29 Lenny Rachitsky Teams at Adobe, Shopify, and top creative agencies use LucidLink to keep their content engine running fast and smooth.
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 5:55 Lenny Rachitsky You're like above Salesforce and TikTok, Nvidia, Adobe, Uber, OpenAI.
Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 1:29 Scott Belsky We joined Adobe in 2012, and then I was faced with all these new challenges and things that I always considered broken as a customer of Adobe, and the idea was, let's go and, you know, try to fix some of these things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41 Scott Belsky I thought I'd be there for a few years, ended up being there for three years, leaving, coming back for another seven years, overseeing Creative Cloud, bringing our products to the, to the web, to mobile, products like Lightroom Mobile,…
- ▶ 1:41 Scott Belsky I thought I'd be there for a few years, ended up being there for three years, leaving, coming back for another seven years, overseeing Creative Cloud, bringing our products to the, to the web, to mobile, products like Lightroom Mobile,…
- ▶ 8:30 Scott Belsky And, you know, we've, we've explored with some of those ideas, for example, in Photoshop with sliders to just, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:58 Scott Belsky And when I came into Adobe, they had these tenure awards that I was supposed to do every quarter at my all hands.
Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- ▶ 37:57 Lenny Rachitsky And it looks pretty accurate, I don't know, there's like Adobe stuff.
Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM @Slack)
- ▶ 9:56 Kenneth Berger Normally, you know, when I was at Adobe, it's a big company, you know, they're going to be fine either way, no matter what I do, right?
The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- ▶ 15:08 Anuj Rathi So there's very interesting insight that I heard from Scott Belsky, um, from Adobe, and then now he's doing, like, very interesting stuff, and that kind of stayed with me, and, uh, which was, you know, how to think about users or modern…
My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
- ▶ 18:22 Lenny Rachitsky Next up is Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe, former Chief Product Officer of Adobe, also former founder of Behance.
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Zero)
- ▶ 1:20:48 Tom Conrad And it's like, you know, I'm like teaching myself after effects or something, which I will immediately forget.
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 30:44 Claire Butler I was maybe in Photoshop before that, right?
Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- ▶ 14:34 Nikhyl Singhal I think it unfortunately kicks out Netflix, but it also, you know, doesn't pay homage to Adobe and Salesforce and a number of other great companies.
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- ▶ 15:05 Nancy Duarte My designer, everyone, you know, Photoshop was new and everyone's doing these beveled backgrounds with tons of crap on the background.
Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe)
- ▶ 1:29 Lenny Rachitsky He's a former founder starting a company called Behance that he sold to Adobe, where he worked up the ranks to Chief Product Officer, and more recently to Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design and Emerging Products.
- ▶ 5:03 Lenny Rachitsky I wanted to start with your role at Adobe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Lenny Rachitsky And as I wanted to ask you, are you finding even at the stage of like an Adobe, there's still lots of opportunity in the first mile?
- ▶ 12:15 Scott Belsky I mean, when you look at a product like Photoshop, for example, it used to cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Lenny Rachitsky Imagine Adobe, there's a lot of B to B elements now as well.
- ▶ 26:24 Lenny Rachitsky You all launched Firefly, which a lot of people are really excited about.
- ▶ 35:10 Lenny Rachitsky Is there anything you're doing with PMs at Adobe at this point that help them leverage these tools and just the ways of working that you're actually using today?
- ▶ 36:16 Scott Belsky 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.
- ▶ 52:43 Lenny Rachitsky Speaking of extraordinary, I thought it'd be cool to just give you a chance to talk about what you're doing at Adobe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:23 Scott Belsky And with generative AI and tools, we have something called Adobe
- ▶ 53:25 Scott Belsky Express and market and our general offerings called Firefly.
- ▶ 59:53 Lenny Rachitsky What's a favorite AI tool that you've recently discovered or find useful that isn't something Adobe has made?
An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
- ▶ 26:17 Varun Parmar Uh, and that's just, like, a direct example, and I think I've seen that multiple times, uh, first at Adobe, where I was part of the document cloud business.
- ▶ 26:17 Varun Parmar Uh, and that's just, like, a direct example, and I think I've seen that multiple times, uh, first at Adobe, where I was part of the document cloud business.
- ▶ 1:21:19 Varun Parmar So for those of you who interviewed with me, I have this math problem, which is based on how Adobe created its first Creative Suite bundle.
- ▶ 1:21:19 Varun Parmar So for those of you who interviewed with me, I have this math problem, which is based on how Adobe created its first Creative Suite bundle. 2 times in the scene
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 1:15:42 Lenny Rachitsky By the way, Scott is the CPO of Adobe and just like awesome product thinker person, and he just wanted to make sure that we touched on this because I think there's a big idea here that maybe people don't realize.
An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)
- ▶ 58:58 Lenny Rachitsky I don't know how much you can say about all this stuff, but with the potential acquisition with Adobe, which I know isn't done yet, but I'm just curious, what do you think will change, may change, you're hoping will change, you're hoping… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 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?
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- ▶ 54:52 Chris Hutchins I've worked with one editor that uses Audition and one that uses Pro Tools.
Overcome imposter syndrome and accelerate your career | Julie Zhuo (Sundial, Facebook)
- ▶ 4:49 Julie Zhuo MS Paint became PaintShop Pro, and then one summer I finangled my way into a pirated copy of Photoshop because, you know, I couldn't actually afford real Photoshop, and I was off to the races in my digital art career.