Overview
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Bloomberg, Cornell Tech, and Tech:NYC invite you to join us for the latest in-person installment of the Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg Speaker Series, featuring Cornell alum Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud at Adobe, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television/Quicktake.
Belsky originally joined Adobe after it acquired his startup, Behance — a social network for creators — in 2012. Since then, Adobe has maintained a steady stream of new product releases, including Lightroom, Fresco, and Creative Cloud, which provides a collection of graphic design, video editing, web development, and other software tools as a subscription service. This bundle has been a successful strategy; in 2022, Creative Cloud revenue grew to nearly $10.5 billion, representing 10% year-over-year growth.
In September 2021, Adobe fortified its position as a leader in digital media software by announcing a $20 billion deal to buy Figma, maker of the popular web-based interface design tool. The deal represents the biggest acquisition of a venture-backed startup ever.
We hope you’ll join us for this conversation, in which Belsky will discuss how his early career led him to nearly a decade at Adobe, the company’s historic acquisition of Figma, how generative AI will transform the creator economy, and his philosophy for his own seed-stage investments.
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About Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg
Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg is a speaker series that convenes leading figures in global technology for monthly conversations to produce new insights and raise compelling questions. Hosted at Bloomberg’s worldwide headquarters in Manhattan, this collaboration between Cornell Tech, Tech:NYC and Bloomberg brings together Bloomberg employees, students, faculty and alumni from the Cornell Tech community, and members of New York’s greater technology community to hear from entrepreneurs, investors, and thinkers.
Speaker
Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky’s primary focus is making Creative Cloud a creativity platform for all. As chief product officer and executive vice president, Creative Cloud, Scott leads product management and engineering for Creative Cloud products and services, Adobe Spark, and Behance, Adobe’s community of 10 million creatives. Scott also oversees Adobe’s design team responsible for experience design in Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.
Prior to joining Adobe in December 2017, Scott was a venture investor at Benchmark in San Francisco. This is Scott’s second tenure at Adobe. He originally joined the company after it acquired Behance in 2012. At that time, he led Adobe’s mobile strategy for Creative Cloud. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006 and served as its CEO for six years.
Over the years, Scott has pursued other projects to help organize and empower creative people. These projects include 99U, Behance’s creative think tank and conference, and his best-selling book Making Ideas Happen.
Scott has been an advisor on design and product management for leading companies and institutions, including Adidas, Pentagram, Pinterest, Procter & Gamble, Facebook, and the United States Government. In 2010, Fast Company included Scott on its list of “100 Most Creative People in Business.”
Scott holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves on the board of Globality, a referrals platform that empowers the careers of independent professionals, the advisory board of Cornell University’s Entrepreneurship Program, and the board of trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.
When & Where
- Bloomberg
- Cornell Tech
- Tech:NYC