Adobe Romania, a nice(r) place to work

Posted on May 25, 2007

If you have followed my small business start-up story so far, I’m not sure if you know, but before that, I got the chance to work at other start-ups including InterAKT, that finally made it it big when it was acquired by Adobe. Back then InterAKT was a start-up just like mine - it’s actually funny to think about the similarities with a company that is named Adobe Systems Romania now

Anyway, there are plenty of stories about how technology companies started small and make it big, as I’ve read in the Founders at Work book, but not so many that tell what happened to the companies after being bought. As only a handful of Romanian companies have been acquired, I’m in a fortunate position to be able to tell about the life of such a company after being bought.

I’ve actually meet with the guys at a recent party, the same old guys that I’ve spent countless hours and efforts struggling in the start-up days to build something out. Their success came from technical innovation, commitment and “futuristic” ideas. Still, I can not stop thinking about the things we were never able to experiment and do, due to financial limitations.

And that’s actually their greatest success they obtained by selling the company: they now get to do what they love most: research and development of new technologies, without the financial limitations. What could be bigger and greater than coming to the office each day and feel you are…an expert?

Dreamweaver, Flex, Apolo, Adobe Media player or other experiments might not mean anything if you are not a programmer, but if you are, what can be best that saying to the world - I’m one of the guys that researched and worked on the creation of these?The Funny thing is that they actually started to write about this on a special blog (sorry only Romanian) they created to describe how life and work goes at Adobe Romania.

Not sure how the life in other acquired companies is, but Adobe Systems Romania really brought to technology engineers from Romania the opportunity to be part of an exclusive family and make work a passion driven experience.

PS: if you are interested about their history before being acquired, you can read it on one of the founders blog

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