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Shantanu Narayen announced this week that he will step down after nearly two decades as CEO of Adobe. In this conversation first published in early 2025, Narayen talked with host Reid Hoffman about how he led the transformation of Adobe’s creative tools like Photoshop to cloud-ba ...  Show more

FanDuel CEO Amy Howe: ‘My whole career has been sliding doors moments’

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