Shantanu Narayen of Adobe Part-1
By kamla bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2009Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Hyderabad, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
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Helping people engage with ideas and information is how Shantanu Narayen of Adobe Systems describes what his company does best.
Described as a leading desktop publisher Adobe makes Acrobat Reader, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver among others.
In 2007 Adobe completed 25 year. Recently Adobe announced its plans to acquire Omniture, a web analytics company for $1.8 billion.
I caught up with Shantanu in 2007 while he was on a whistle-stop tour of Bangalore.
In this interview Shantanu talks about innovation, and how Adobe nurtures innovation through its Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program and working with open source community. At the time of this interview Shantanu was the President and COO of Adobe Systems. A couple of weeks after the interview Shantanu was named as the CEO and of Adobe Systems.
Prior to Adobe Shantanu co-founded Pictra, a digital photo-sharing startup in the late 1990s. Before that he worked with Apple and Silicon Graphics.
You can listen to Part-2 where Shantanu talks about Adobe’s mobile strategy and about Adobe India.
Related Links: Video clips of Shantanu talking about Adobe and Rich Internet Applications- Part-1 and Part-2.
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
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