Adobe

MrBeast: If You Want To Be Liked, Don't Help People & I Lost Tens Of Millions On Beast Games!

The Diary Of A CEO

Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art

Conversations with Tyler

In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

All-In Podcast

Example of a company whose potential mergers, like with Figma, are stalled due to regulatory scrutiny.

Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more

All-In Podcast

Software company whose bundling practices are criticized, particularly in relation to Figma's success.

Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax

All-In Podcast

Software company mentioned in an anecdote about a non-poaching agreement with Apple and a terse email from Steve Jobs.

Dylan Field: Is AI Replacing Designers?, Design is the New Code & Democratizing Creativity

All-In Podcast

A company that Dylan Field has long respected, having been a user of Photoshop since the early days. Adobe attempted to acquire Figma for $20 billion, but the deal was blocked by antitrust regulators.

How Image Watermarking Works - Computerphile

Computerphile

Mentioned as developing Trustmark, a system similar to Google's SynthID for image watermarking.

AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

Y Combinator

The CEO of Adobe was mentioned as being kidnapped in the 90s, an example of physical threat to executives.

OpenAI’s $20 BILLION MISS Wiped Out $370B from Tech Stocks

Tom Bilyeu

A software company mentioned as one of eight companies with frozen access to the green card program for foreign tech labor.

Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots

All-In Podcast

A software company whose 'big five' products were reportedly decompiled and open-sourced, highlighting the changing value of IP in software.

AI Labs Warn Race Makes Breach ‘Inevitable’

AI Explained

Mentioned in the context of reverse engineering software, where the ability to recreate an entire Adobe suite is now possible.

E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update

All-In Podcast

$20 billion acquisition of Figma is stalled due to regulatory concerns in the UK. The company also had a competitive product (XD) that failed and was shut down.

Deep Dive: Anthropic S-1 Myths and Mythos — Jamin Ball, Altimeter

Latent Space

A software company known for its creative applications, mentioned as an example of a full-fledged application suite that Claude Design is not yet trying to replace.

Stocks Drop Hard — What’s Next? + What Clinton Might Reveal About Trump & Epstein?

Tom Bilyeu

Enterprise software company whose business model is seen as vulnerable to AI's encroachment into the software application layer.

From Dad’s Basement to Selling Two Companies — 4-Hour Workweek Success Story

Tim Ferriss

The company that acquired Semrush.

I Went From Broke To $1B+ In just 3 years

My First Million

The company where Scott Bellski served as Chief Product Officer.

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike

All-In Podcast

A SaaS product whose stock is down 33% in the past six months, mentioned as part of the broader 'SaaS product index' decline.

Mohnish Pabrai: How to be a top 1% investor

My First Million

Software company known for creative and marketing software, mentioned as an incumbent software company whose cash flows are unlikely to be harmed by AI, potentially benefiting from reduced costs.

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The Road Ahead: Resilience Required

Stanford Online

One of the co-founders of Adobe was kidnapped in Silicon Valley 20 years ago, highlighting a historical example of executive risk.

Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026

Latent Space

Mentioned as a company that built on top of a platform, similar to the vision for current AI ecosystems.

Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

All-In Podcast

A company whose valuation was surpassed by OpenAI and Anthropic by the end of 2025.

Desktop Mashups: Combining Web Applications to Make Desktop Productivity Tools

GoogleTalksArchive

Mentioned as the provider of the Flex store demo, which was used as an example of an external web application hosted by Sidewinder.

Update on the Natural Programming Project

GoogleTalksArchive

Mentioned for providing data on creative workers and potentially sponsoring research related to designer interaction.

Teaching AI the Language of Design | Deep Dives with a16z

a16z Deep Dives

The company behind Photoshop, whose engineers are noted for understanding graphic design well, similar to the creators of PostScript.