Adobe logo on Adobe Inc headquarters building in the downtown of Silicon Valley largest city - San Jose, CA, USA - 2020

The $596 Software Profit Machine

Wednesday, August 20, 1986. That’s the day Adobe Inc. went public at $11 per share. Today (more than three decades later), almost everybody with a smartphone has used one of Adobe’s products (that PDF you just opened? Probably Adobe). And unsurprisingly, the stock now trades at around $596 per share. Early investors who held on…