Adobe
Software company known for creative tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF products.
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Both are major creative software companies. Adobe tried to acquire Figma but was blocked.
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Both are major creative software companies. Adobe tried to acquire Figma but was blocked.
"There's Adobe which does 23 billion growing at 12% trading at like three or four times revenue. There's Figma which is also public doing at 1.4 billion, growing at 40%, the fastest, and in the middle there's Canva still private around 3...."
Compared to Figma and Canva as the three major creative software companies
"You couldn't have Figma join Adobe. That was the stupidest blockage ever. And then Adobe would be challenging Microsoft, you know, and their suite of products."
Would have acquired Figma; positioned as potential challenger to Microsoft's product suite
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"In our space there are definitely other companies like Adobe and Canva who build the best software for the pixel-first era where everything was defined with pixels, but that's clearly not how the world is going to work in the future."
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"In my brief tenure at Adobe as a VP, during the transition to the cloud"
"We've always had tools, right? We've had Adobe, you know, since when I was a marketer 20 years ago."
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"There's Adobe which does 23 billion growing at 12% trading at like three or four times revenue. There's Figma which is also public doing at 1.4 billion, growing at 40%, the fastest, and in the middle there's Canva still private around 3.6 billion ..."
More from Rory O'Driscoll →"He was super short Adobe and a whole bunch of other SaaS companies. And those trades also moved the wrong way on him."
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"You couldn't have Figma join Adobe. That was the stupidest blockage ever. And then Adobe would be challenging Microsoft, you know, and their suite of products."
More from This Week in Startups →"Then it was ServiceNow. It was Adobe by the end of the year."
More from Thomas Laffont →"This was one of the first posts I ever wrote right when I got out of Adobe."
More from Ramp Raises →"With Adobe the idea is many times chat interfaces sit on top of websites. The next generation is going to bring those capabilities into the digital layer itself, fusing these two layers"
More from Justin Wexler →"In other words, you're installing Adobe, you're installing some malware detector thing, it and it would always download the toolbar because they got paid to distribute it."
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"now it's going after Figma, Adobe, Canva"
More from 20VC with Harry Stebbings →"I got to do that with Adobe, by the way. Adobe, if you're listening, charged me 40 bucks a month for two years."
"I think it's just Miro at scale, but with so much scale that it survives. It's a reminder that Miro didn't — in today's world, $600 million in collaboration would be scale, but Adobe has scale. Even if Adobe isn't really making the right moves in ..."
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