Scott Belsky ADBE

Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products, Adobe Inc

Eclectic Convergence 2025: Closing Remarks with Scott Belsky and Zach Shulman

📅 Nov 16, 2025 Entrepreneurship at Cornell 10 MIN 15 VIEWS 6 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS

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Okay, so now it's time for one of my favorite parts of the day. First of all, thank you all for coming. This has just been a fantastic day. Scott has this wonderful habit of taking notes during all the sessions and throwing back some sound bites.

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Belsky, S. (2025, November 16). Eclectic Convergence 2025: Closing Remarks with Scott Belsky and Zach Shulman [Interview transcript]. Entrepreneurship at Cornell. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/875968/

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Scott Belsky. "Eclectic Convergence 2025: Closing Remarks with Scott Belsky and Zach Shulman." Entrepreneurship at Cornell, 16 Nov. 2025. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/875968/.

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Key Quotes (5)

“Creative financing as part of the hustle. If you owe money to a vendor in the early days, just be sure to keep talking to them. Relationships build credit, perhaps literally. Getting partners to invest unlocks long-term incentives.”

▶ 2:35 POLICY

“The dirty little secret is that sticking together long enough to figure it out is the competitive advantage. Trends over fads. When you really know your category, being able to amp up the volume of your own intuition as opposed to always relying on research and data.”

▶ 3:45

“Sales is the act of transferring energy. When you are selling your product, when you're selling your vision, whether it's to an investor in your fund or a vendor or someone in your farmers market buying hummus, like transferring your enthusiasm and energy. That is like the best definition of sales that I know.”

▶ 6:17

“There is a lot of concern these days about AI getting in the way of entry-level roles. But a lot of us are actually closer to the metal on the new things that are happening in our space than those that are hiring us. This idea of knowledge arbitrage, the same thing happened in the early days of social media. Those of you that are native with ChatGPT, that know how to use LLMs and know how to promp”

▶ 6:52

“You can't AB test your way to something great. I truly believe this. Companies that become incremental keep climbing the mountain they're on without realizing that they're climbing the wrong mountain altogether. Having some way, shape or form of channeling intuition to essentially be willing to bet the company at times is sort of the founder mode that is missing in companies.”

▶ 7:50

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About Scott Belsky

Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe, appeared on the podcast "More or Less" in August 2026, where he discussed the evolution of technology and AI. He stated that the concept of websites is likely to disappear quickly, describing a shift from user-directed tasks ("help me do this") to autonomous action ("just do it"). He also commented on the societal role of misinformation, saying that "fake stuff is really helpful for society right now because it inoculates us and makes us realize we can't trust what we see anymore." In earlier podcast appearances, Belsky discussed topics related to product development and entrepreneurship. He emphasized the importance of empathy over passion in determining what product to build, and advised that teams should stick together long enough to figure things out rather than being discouraged by daily volatility. He also expressed views on design education, suggesting it should be taught as a form of literacy in schools, and on investing, noting that the greatest investors have a deep understanding of present dynamics and how they are about to change. Additionally, he stated that disconnection can be a competitive advantage in a constantly connected world.

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