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Scribd History: Harvard Trip Adler Jared Friedman Y Combinator

Scribd began as a site for hosting and sharing documents, founded by Trip Adler who wanted to create an easy way to publish and share written content online. Scribd allowed anyone to self-publish documents using its document reader, which converted files like PDFs into web documents that could be embedded anywhere. In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly to millions of visitors. Later, Scribd launched a store for authors to sell digital works, partnered with publishers like Simon & Schuster, and launched readers for media companies' content.

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Scribd History: Harvard Trip Adler Jared Friedman Y Combinator

Scribd began as a site for hosting and sharing documents, founded by Trip Adler who wanted to create an easy way to publish and share written content online. Scribd allowed anyone to self-publish documents using its document reader, which converted files like PDFs into web documents that could be embedded anywhere. In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly to millions of visitors. Later, Scribd launched a store for authors to sell digital works, partnered with publishers like Simon & Schuster, and launched readers for media companies' content.

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SCRIBD HISTORY

Scribd began as a site to host and share documents.[12] While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to
publish academic papers.[14] His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research published.[14] Adler wanted to create a
simple way to publish and share written content online.[15] He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the
summer of 2006.[16] There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[6]

Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document reader.[14] The document reader
turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds.[17] In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly
to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008.[18] It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[18]

In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online.[19] That same month, the site partnered
with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd.[20]The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on Scribd, including books from bestselling
authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark.[21]

In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington
Post, TechCrunch, and MediaBistro.[17] ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009.[22] In August 2010, many notable
documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral, including the California Proposition 8 ruling, which received over 100,000 views in about 24 minutes, and HP's
lawsuit against Mark Hurd's move to Oracle.[23][24

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