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John Warnock
AT ADOBEMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JUNE 24, 2026
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John Warnock co-founded Adobe Systems with Charles Geschke in 1982 and served as its president, CEO, and chairman of the board over the course of his career. He is best known for pioneering PostScript, Adobe Illustrator, and the PDF, technologies that revolutionized desktop publishing and digital document communication. He passed away on August 19, 2023, at the age of 82.
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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 24, 2026
“PostScript was a miracle because the Adobe guys, the Warnock — the manual for PostScript is beautiful, incredibly well designed. Those engineers understood graphic design better than most graphic designers.”
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