Chuck Geschke has died
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Chuck Geschke has died
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#2The article mentions his kidnapping.
That was a big deal in SV, and resulted in big-company executives getting bodyguards, black SUVs, and sometimes even separate office buildings for top mgmt.
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#3> “He was a famous businessman, the founder of a major company in the U.S. and the world, and of course he was very, very proud of that and it was huge achievement in his life, but it wasn’t his focus — really, his family was,” Nancy “Nan” Geschke, 78, told the Mercury News on Saturday. “He always called himself the luckiest man in the world.”
I haven’t heard of Geschke before this but that may actually be a reason I believe this description. So many other technology giants have egos and cult-like personas and a need to be visible and known. It sounds like Geschke was a humble and balanced man who knew his priorities in life. Rest In Peace.
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#4The article mentions his kidnapping. That was a big deal in SV, and resulted in big-company executives getting bodyguards, black SUVs, and sometimes even separate office buildings for top mgmt.
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#5Photoshop, PostScript, Illustrator, Premiere. PDFs, as influental as they've been, are a footnote in the changes Adobe wrought on the creative industries.
Also: "Steve Jobs attempted to buy the company for $5 million in 1982, but Warnock and Geschke refused. Their investors urged them to work something out with Jobs, so they agreed to sell him shares worth 19 percent of the company."
Good call.
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#6"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
My love to PDF in the early 2000 turned into hatred. This format should really be abolished.
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#7"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" My love to PDF in the early 2000 turned into hatred. This format should really be abolished.
Much of the problems could’ve been avoided if PDFs embedded their own source code (e.g. the TeX that generated it) much like a website has a View Source option.
Alas.
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#8you could say that his subscription expired....or his cloud subscription just begun :D
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#9The article mentions his kidnapping. That was a big deal in SV, and resulted in big-company executives getting bodyguards, black SUVs, and sometimes even separate office buildings for top mgmt.
Quite a story (four parts): https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/215-news-b... https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/215-news-b... https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/215-news-b... https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/215-news-b...
> Though Nan, 54, was active in the American Red Cross and the Los Altos Historical Commission, as a couple they kept a low-profile lifestyle, never flaunting the considerable income Chuck, 58, was bringing home from his phenomenally successful computer graphics company, Adobe Systems.
> Both before and after the kidnapping, they shunned publicity. Chuck is especially critical of the San Jose Mercury News, which he believes have exploited his privacy by publicizing the value of his stock options with a characterization of his face. “That may or may not be right for football and baseball players, but I don’t understand why an industrialist like myself needs to be put in that position. I don’t see how the public is served by having that kind of exposure,” he said. He wonders if such media coverage played a role in the kidnappers selecting him.
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#10> “He was a famous businessman, the founder of a major company in the U.S. and the world, and of course he was very, very proud of that and it was huge achievement in his life, but it wasn’t his focus — really, his family was,” Nancy “Nan” Geschke, 78, told the Mercury News on Saturday. “He always called himself the luckiest man in the world.” I haven’t heard of Geschke before this but that may actually be a reason I…
Which CEO? Elon Musk? I heard that it was a deliberate strategy. I remembered him saying that he needs to become a celebrity.
Otherwise, I don't know any flamboyant CEO with giant egos.
Beside, I now think of Adobe as a company with a negative legacy with anti-user features.