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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, who led one of the most successful transformations in enterprise software history — growing the company from $3.6 billion to nearly $24 billion in annual revenue — announced on March 12, 2026, that he will step down once a successor is named, remaining as board chair. The departure, timed alongside a Q1 earnings beat but a miss on a key growth metric, sent Adobe shares tumbling 8% as investors grapple with whether the company's AI strategy can withstand mounting competition from generative AI startups and the broader disruption reshaping the creative software industry.