Fast facts

A quick overview of Adobe’s history,

leadership, key stats, and products.

Artwork by Manolo Ide

About us
Adobe believes creativity empowers transformation—personally,
professionally, and across all industries. We not only deliver strong
financial results, but we’re also driving incredible innovation, adding
millions of new customers, delivering billions of experiences across
screens, and processing trillions of data transactions online.

Founded Corporate headquarters

December 1982 by Charles Geschke and San Jose, California, USA
John Warnock

Stock symbol
Incorporated ADBE (NASDAQ)
October 1983 in California; reincorporated
in Delaware, May 1997
Revenue
Fiscal 2020 revenue: US$12.87 billion
Initial public offering (FY ended Nov. 27, 2020)
August 20, 1986, at a split-adjusted share
price of US$0.17

Employees
More than 23,000 worldwide
Our solutions

We believe in creativity for all, so we give everyone the tools to discover and express their creativity
through photography, design, video, animation, web and mobile user experiences, and more.

• Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Adobe Photoshop.

• Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps have been downloaded over 449 million times.
• Adobe stock now offers 250+ million assets, including more than 150 million photos, 85 million vectors and
illustrations, 20 million videos, 38,000 audio tracks, 4 million Premium assets, and 75,000 free photos, vectors,
videos, templates, illustrations, and 3D assets.

• Behance, Adobe’s online creative community, has over 24 million members. Creatives worldwide
use Behance to showcase work and find inspiration.

• Creative Cloud 2D and 3D design tools transform old “make, use, dispose” design processes into elegant,
sustainable, circular design workflows. A digital design phase means more resources for our planet.

We make it easy for people and businesses to create, edit, share, scan, and sign digital documents
so they can communicate and collaborate securely across devices.

• More than 300 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products in the last year.
• More than 8 billion electronic and digital signature transactions were processed through Adobe Document
Cloud in the past year. The majority of Fortune 100 companies rely on Adobe Sign for fast, secure e-signatures.

• Adobe Scan is the leading scanning app on iOS and Android with more than 110 million downloads and
1 billion documents created.

• Documents created, signed, shared, and stored in Document Cloud drive a 90% cost savings and a
95% reduction in environmental impact compared with paper-based processes.

• Every 1 million Adobe Sign transactions save 105 million liters of water, 31,000 trees, and the equivalent
of taking 2,300 cars off the road for a year—plus reducing costs by more than $7.2 million.

We give businesses unmatched solutions for content management, personalization, data analytics,
and commerce to deliver experiences that drive customer loyalty and long-term success.

• Industry analysts have named Adobe a leader in 40+ categories such as digital experience platforms, content
management systems, customer analytics, CRM lead management, digital commerce, enterprise marketing
software suites, and more.

• Adobe Experience Cloud is supported by an expansive global ecosystem, of 4,226 active solution integrator,
agency, technology, and marketplace partners and more than 450,000 developers and community members.

• With Adobe Analytics, we analyze more than a trillion visits to sites and over 100 million SKUs. We arm
enterprises with the most comprehensive and accurate insights for retail and e-commerce.
Our leaders
Shantanu Narayen
Chairman, President, and
Chief Executive Officer
Scott Belsky
Executive Vice President
and Chief Product Officer,
Creative Cloud
Anil Chakravarthy
Executive Vice President
and General Manager,
Digital Experience Business and
Worldwide Field Operations
Gloria Chen
Chief People Officer and
Executive Vice President,
Employee Experience
Major acquisitions
Workfront, 2020
Allegorithmic, 2019
Marketo, 2018
Corporate responsibility
We believe that creativity is the catalyst for positive change. Through our efforts, we
inspire creativity in people who want to make a meaningful impact in the following areas:
Creativity
We support creators of all
ages and backgrounds so they
can use their creativity for
good, express themselves, and
reach their full potential.
Ann Lewnes Charles Geschke
Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder
Executive Vice President,
Corporate Strategy &
John Warnock
Development
Co-founder
John Murphy
Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
Abhay Parasnis
Adobe Chief Technology Officer
and Chief Product Officer,
Document Cloud
Dana Rao
Executive Vice President, General
Counsel, and Corporate Secretary
Magento, 2018 Day Software, 2010
Fotolia, 2015 Omniture, Inc., 2009
Behance, 2012 Macromedia, Inc., 2005
Sustainability Community
We’re always finding new ways We empower our people and
to conserve natural resources partners to better our world.
in everything we do—and
we’ve seen big benefits for our
business, our customers, and
our communities.
Our values
Genuine Innovative
We are sincere, trustworthy, and We’re highly creative and always striving to
reliable. connect new ideas with business realities.

Exceptional Involved
We’re committed to creating exceptional We’re inclusive, open, and actively engaged
experiences that delight our employees with our customers, partners, employees,
and customers. and the communities we serve.

Industry recognition
#9 Most Innovative Recognized on the Best Employers for
Companies - Artificial Disability Equality Index Diversity
Intelligence DEI, 2020 Forbes, 2020
Fast Company, 2021

Blue Ribbon Companies Top 100 Internship Recognized on the Dow

Fortune, 2021 Programs Jones Sustainability Index
WayUp, 2020 DJSI, 2020

#10 The JUST 100 Top 50 Best Places to Best Global Brands
JUST Capital, 2021 Work Interbrand, 2020
Glassdoor, 2020

Recognized on Bloomberg Recognized on the CDP World’s Most Admired

Gender-Equity Index Climate Change A List Companies
2021 CDP, 2020 Fortune, 2020

The Civic 50 #5 Best Leadership Teams Future 50

Points of Light, 2020 Comparably, 2020 Fortune, 2020

Adobe, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110

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