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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Adobe CEO: Creativity, Innovation and Unreasonable expectations

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8186 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How can setting unreasonable expectations lead to innovation and success? In this episode, Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe, shares how early mentorship experiences shaped his approach to leadership. Nicolai and Shantanu also discuss the impact of AI on creativity, the founders' lasting influence on Adobe's culture, Shantanu's upbringing in India, the importance of education and how he never takes no for an answer. Tune in!

In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New episode out every Wednesday.

This interview was recorded April 30th 2024

The production team for this episode includes PLAN-B's Pål Huuse and Niklas Figenschau Johansen. Background research was conducted by Kristian Haga.




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0:00.0

Hi everyone. Today we are talking to the man that makes us all look much better in photos

0:05.5

and enable us to open 400 billion PDFs yearly. Wow. Named the top CEO by Glass Store

0:12.1

based on employee feedback. Please welcome Chantanou Narihan, cheer and CEO of Adobe.

0:18.3

Chantanu, what an honor to have you on. Thank you so much for having me, Nikola.

0:22.5

It's a pleasure to be on your show.

0:32.9

A lot of people have heard about your products and they use your things every day.

0:38.6

But just very briefly, what are the main things that Adobe do?

0:44.3

Well, Adobe's mission has always been changing the world through digital experiences.

0:51.1

And the company was founded when we invented PostScript, which was the way that people actually printed. And, you know, subsequently, we've invented many groundbreaking innovations. But three real lines of businesses. We talk about creativity. So any piece of creative content that you see out there, we hope a piece of Adobe software was used to create it, whether it's packaging on a bottle of water, whether it's the video you're looking on a web, whether it's, you know, a image that you're editing.

1:21.7

The second business is, as you mentioned.

1:23.3

So in there, for instance, you would have Photoshop as one of the products.

1:26.0

Exactly.

1:26.8

Photoshop is one of the products. Illust. Photoshop is one of the products.

1:28.6

Illustrator is one of the products for vector and artwork and logo creation.

1:33.6

Certainly premiere for editing videos.

1:36.2

All the special effects is after effects.

1:39.1

And so that's the creative business.

1:40.6

Our newest product there is Express, which is enabling this vision for creativity for

1:45.7

all. So anybody who has a story to tell whether you're a K-12 student or the largest enterprise

1:51.5

in the world, that's the creative business. Probably we're best known for that. And as you

1:56.1

I have to tell you, I did a weekend course in Photoshop and I love it. So much fun.

2:00.4

That's awesome. And we're making it better and easier. We just announced some really cool stuff

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