Adobe founded
John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe. The founding history does not establish a private investment price.
Creative software · ADBE
Adobe
Adobe’s official history supplies its 1986 IPO date and a rounded split-adjusted IPO price. The calculator presents that reference as approximate rather than inventing a precise private funding price.
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Starting price: $0.17 · IPO · Aug 20, 1986 · rounded adjusted reference
1 ADBE share equivalents per starting share at your ending date. Uses a rounded reference; results are approximate.
Uses documented share adjustments through 2005-05-24. Assumes the share basis remains comparable after that date; other distributions are excluded.
HISTORICAL REFERENCE → YOUR PRICE
AdobeADBE · IPO reference · about $0.17 adjusted
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Approximate result using Adobe’s rounded $0.17 split-adjusted IPO reference. Already on the post-May 2005 basis; do not apply the 64-for-one cumulative adjustment again.
Formula: amount ÷ $0.17 × 1 × ADBE ending price.
Adobe corporate fast facts ↗Adobe stock-split FAQ ↗Illustrative paper value; no sale or access to a historical investment is assumed. Excludes fees, taxes, cash dividends, warrants and other distributions; fractional shares assumed. An entered ending price is unverified.
THE STORY & THE EVIDENCE
Adobe: before the public market.
Adobe’s official history supplies its 1986 IPO date and a rounded split-adjusted IPO price. The calculator presents that reference as approximate rather than inventing a precise private funding price.
IPO3 sourced milestones1 documented share scenarios
- Formation
- IPO reference
Adobe public offering
Approximately $0.17, split-adjusted
Adobe publishes a rounded $0.17 split-adjusted IPO reference. It is useful for an approximate comparison, not an exact reconstruction of an IPO allocation.
- Share basis
Six two-for-one splits
The six public splits multiply to 64. That adjustment is already included in the $0.17 reference.
What the records do not establish
- The company’s $0.17 adjusted IPO reference is rounded. Calculations using it are approximate; it is not represented as a precise original offer price.
- A private-round cash price and conversion chain is not established by these sources. The IPO reference is already split-adjusted and must not be multiplied by 64 again.
Research reviewed 2026-09-24. Selected public records, not a complete private cap table. An undisclosed price is left unknown.
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Source documents & filing locations
Adobe corporate fast facts ↗
Founding in December 1982; August 20, 1986 IPO; rounded split-adjusted IPO price of $0.17.
Adobe stock-split FAQ ↗
Six two-for-one splits; May 24, 2005 split-adjusted trading.