New York CNN —John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, has died aged 82, the software company announced on Sunday.
Warnock helped start the revolutionary company in 1982 with the late Charles Geschke, and transformed Adobe into a software powerhouse that became the backbone of the internet.
“John’s brilliance and technology innovations changed the world,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in a letter sent to employees.
“I had an amazing teacher in high school who, essentially, completely turned me around,” Warnock said.
“He was really good at getting you to love mathematics, and that’s when I got into it.”A cause of death wasn’t revealed.
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