After more than seven years, I’ve decided to bring my Adobe journey to a close. A few years after Adobe acquired @sayspring, I pitched the idea for Adobe Podcast. And since that first day, building this product and assembling the team behind it has been one of the highlights of my career. It’s been incredible to see the impact a small, talented group can have inside a large company. Collaborating with Adobe Research to productize and launch Enhance Speech was especially rewarding. We built most of our own tech stack, ran our own GTM, and even handled customer support. What started as a five-person effort grew into a scrappy 15-person team that delivered: Adobe Podcast – Current Performance • 1.1M monthly active users (last 30 days) Adobe Podcast – All-Time Impact • 12.9M total users • 108M exports What a ride. Learning Adobe and Macromedia tools 25 years ago shaped the entire trajectory of my career, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have spent this time here. I don’t have firm plans for what’s next, but I have a hunch there’s a third startup in me. Stay tuned…

We’ll eventually see the rise of an “AI Handyman” for individuals. A generalist who charges an hourly rate to take on small projects, fix things that break, etc. People could probably do these things themselves, but it’s easier to just hire someone who knows what they’re doing.

I worked at a startup called Joost in 2007 during the advent of streaming, and referred to “channel surfing” on traditional television as the ideal form of “serendipitous content discovery.” To this day, no platform has been able to match it.

This entire thread made my day. Starting Adobe Podcast was a highlight of my career and shows what's possible when a large company fully empowers a small autonomous team to do big things. Thanks @fchollet.

We’re working on adding support for editing video, not just audio, in Adobe Podcast. We have an invite-only early version ready for feedback. If you want to try it out, DM me your email address before the end of today and I’ll give you access.

If you have Adobe Podcast Premium, last night we launched a separate background slider, so you can adjust speech enhancement and bg noise individually. Try it out!