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Scribd Inc.

(pronounced /ˈskrɪbd/) operates three primary


platforms: Scribd, Everand, and SlideShare. Scribd is a digital document
library that hosts over 195 million documents. Everand is a digital content
subscription service offering a wide selection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines,
podcasts, and sheet music. SlideShare is an online platform featuring over 15
million presentations from subject matter experts. [1][2][3]
The company was founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon
Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Tony Grimminck took
over as CEO in 2024.
History
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Founding (2007–2013)
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Scribd began as a site to host and share documents. [2] While at Harvard, Trip
Adler was inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process
required to publish academic papers.[4] His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told
it would take 18 months to have his medical research published. [4] Adler wanted
to create a simple way to publish and share written content online. [5] He co-
founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y
Combinator in the summer of 2006.[6] There, Scribd received its initial $120,000
in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007. [7]
Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish
on the site using its document reader. [4] The document reader
turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be
shared on any website that allows embeds. [8] In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly
to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008. [9] It also ranked as one of the top 20
social media sites according to Comscore. [9]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload
and sell digital copies of their work online. [10] That same month, the site
partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd.[11] 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.
[12]

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.[8] ProQuest began publishing
dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009. [13] 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.[14][15]

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