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How Adobe is leveraging AI (with CEO & Chair Shantanu Narayen) | Masters of Scale

About Shantanu

  • Transformed Adobe by pioneering the cloud-based Creative Cloud subscription model.
  • Chair and CEO of Adobe, leading 30,000+ employees; CEO since 2007, Chair since 2017.
  • Recognized as one of the World's Best CEOs (Barron's, Fortune, Glassdoor, various years).
  • Recipient of India's Padma Shri and Economic Times Global Indian of the Year awards.
  • Board member of Pfizer, former director at Dell, ex-U.S. President’s Management Advisory Board.

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Shantanu Narayen has weathered plenty of storms for Adobe, the iconic software company that earned more than $21 billion in revenue last year. The veteran tech leader talks with host Reid Hoffman about transforming Adobe’s creative tools like Photoshop to a cloud-based subscription, how that unlocked ways to innovate faster, and why those lessons are serving the company well in the new age of AI.

Synthetic voiceover of Reid Hoffman used in this episode was produced by Respeecher with full consent and permission.

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