At a Xerox Palo Alto research center around 1970, soon-to-be Adobe founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke met and shared their work researching graphic systems and printing. It was a match made in heaven. The two decided to join forces and created Adobe in 1982 to innovate new and improved ways to print text and images. The company’s first product was PostScript, a software that allows a computer file to be printed in the exact form it appears on screen. PostScript remains the industry standard, but it isn’t the only Adobe innovation that’s lasted the test of time.

Today, Adobe provides a myriad of services that make it one of the most depended-upon software and technology companies in the world. Products like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, both created in the early days of the company, are used daily in numerous industrie...