{"id":11247,"date":"2006-10-25T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/10\/100000000-in-seed-money-for-apollo-developers.html"},"modified":"2006-10-25T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T08:18:57","slug":"100000000_in_seed_money_for_apollo_develop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/25\/100000000_in_seed_money_for_apollo_develop\/","title":{"rendered":"$100,000,000 in seed money for Apollo developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a packed keynote address at Adobe MAX yesterday, the company made a rather interesting announcement: according to (and buried in) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/200610\/102406MAX.html\">press release<\/a>, &quot;Adobe also plans to invest approximately $100 million in venture capital over the next 3-5 years in companies leveraging Adobe platform technologies, particularly companies delivering applications via Apollo, as part of Adobe&#8217;s commitment to building an ecosystem for the Adobe\u00ae Engagement Platform.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tschka-tschka-eh<\/em>WHAT?&#160; As they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirksencenter.org\/print_emd_billionhere.htm\">say<\/a> in Congress, &quot;$100M here, $100M there&#8211;pretty soon you&#8217;re talking about real money.&quot;&#160; I wasn&#8217;t hired for my math skills (at heart, I remain a simple unfrozen caveman Web designer), but this kind of money strikes me as a huge vote of confidence in the platform &amp; the developer community around it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a packed keynote address at Adobe MAX yesterday, the company made a rather interesting announcement: according to (and buried in) the press release, &quot;Adobe also plans to invest approximately $100 million in venture capital over the next 3-5 years in companies leveraging Adobe platform technologies, particularly companies delivering applications via Apollo, as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}