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▶ 19:04 Jason Lemkin I mean, I had at least, back in the old Adobe sign ideas, I had at least 200 years of ideas we never built that were all good ones.
▶ 24:34 Jason Lemkin If you want to just maximize revenue next week, then do what Marketo and Adobe did, but this is not, you're going to, it's in terminal decay, right? 3 times in the scene
▶ 55:30 Amelia Ibarra If I have to sign something that's an NDA or GDPR thing, I actually kind of use EchoSign sometimes for this reason so that it's not, or I just sign it as a PDF.

▶ 23:06 unnamed speaker I mean, Marketo as a dated vendor run under Adobe, terrible, terrible work with the humans there, right?

▶ 36:40 Jason Lemkin Worst piece of software and the two by two worst and most expensive Adobe Marketo.
▶ 36:46 Jason Lemkin They'll never care because they're in maintenance mode and Adobe, Adobe doesn't respond to any issues. 2 times in the scene

▶ 13:07 Alex Mashrabov Like historically, what we have seen with incumbents like Adobe is that it used to be like desktop tooling, all the storage was on desktop, and it was just very cumbersome process of constantly exchanging files and so on.

▶ 15:55 Jason Lemkin Like when I was at Adobe, it took them five years to go live in Salesforce.
▶ 47:43 Jason Lemkin Oh, I founded Ecosign, which Adobe bought.

▶ 36:41 Jason Lemkin Zenefits, uh, was our first outbound leader in the old days at Adobe Sign, Echo Sign, partnered Founders Fund, and now founder and CEO of one of the hottest GTM startups.

▶ 53:55 Amelia LeRutte Where he's just so crazy focused on getting this all to work with the agents, that it's part of my bet is, okay, clearly Adobe's not doing that, so goodbye Marketo.

▶ 38:36 Amelia Ibarra Well, the irony too is, if, if Adobe Premiere tomorrow, I, I've talked on the spot before how I like some of the agentic, um, features of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
▶ 38:36 Amelia Ibarra Well, the irony too is, if, if Adobe Premiere tomorrow, I, I've talked on the spot before how I like some of the agentic, um, features of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
▶ 38:36 Amelia Ibarra Well, the irony too is, if, if Adobe Premiere tomorrow, I, I've talked on the spot before how I like some of the agentic, um, features of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. 4 times in the scene
▶ 1:20:51 Jason Lemkin When I was a VP at Adobe, we did layoffs so that, because we weren't allowed to fire anybody for any reason other than inappropriate conduct.

▶ 17:12 Amelia LeRutte Well, Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator is still the gold standard. 7 times in the scene
▶ 20:49 Jason Lemkin That, hey, get Adobe.
▶ 25:41 Amelia LeRutte Unlike vibing in, unlike, you know, firing up Photoshop or Illustrator, that just takes a lot more clicks because those tools are a lot more complex, right?
▶ 25:41 Amelia LeRutte Unlike vibing in, unlike, you know, firing up Photoshop or Illustrator, that just takes a lot more clicks because those tools are a lot more complex, right?

▶ 31:25 Jason Lemkin Adobe trying to get into the AI game on the marketing side buys SEMrush, SEMrush, because they wanted to be into GEO, LLM, 6 times in the scene
▶ 31:52 Jason Lemkin It's not, it's not Creative Cloud and others.
▶ 41:20 Jason Lemkin When I was back, when I was at Adobe and we moved to Salesforce, it took Adobe five years just to move to Salesforce. 2 times in the scene

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