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Scott Belsky
Product/design obsessive, founder, author, investor based in New York
Scott Belsky serves as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. In this role, he is responsible for corporate strategy, design leadership across Adobe's product lines, and the incubation of emerging products, including 3D & Immersive technologies, Adobe Stock, and Behance. His focus is on identifying future opportunities and leading investments within the startup ecosystem.124
Before his current position, Belsky was the Chief Product Officer at Adobe, where he oversaw the development of the Creative Cloud suite, launching key products like Adobe Express and enhancing flagship applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator for web and mobile platforms. He has been instrumental in initiatives like the Content Authenticity Initiative, which aims to foster transparency in digital content.124
Belsky co-founded Behance in 2006, a platform that has grown to support over 50 million creatives, and served as its CEO until Adobe acquired the company in 2012. He has also worked as a venture investor at Benchmark and has advised various startups, including Pinterest and Uber, focusing on the intersection of technology and design.1234
He holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Additionally, Belsky is an author of two best-selling books, "Making Ideas Happen" and "The Messy Middle," and is involved with several boards, including the Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program.124
Highlights
money obfuscates reality, often when reality is what you need most.
now having a few “trend cycles” in early VC to reflect on, its clear that overcapitalized companies struggle to develop the muscle of resourcefulness.
pre-PMF product dev should happen w/ resource constraints
intelligent people are just as liable to be cognitively lazy
