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Friedman co-founded Scribd with fellow [[Harvard University]] student [[Trip Adler]]. The pair attended [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] in the summer of 2006, and launched Scribd from a [[San Francisco]] apartment in March 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/10/28/10-startups-that-helped-fuel-y.html?s=image_gallery |title=Y Combinator's 10 most valuable startup alumni |author=Cromwell Schubarth |publisher=Silicon Valley Business Journal |date=October 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/22/scribd-trip-adler-youtube |title=How Scribd made pages pay |author=Bobbie Johnson |publisher=The Guardian |date=July 22, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_25/b4136054153678.htm |title=Scribd: An E-Book Upstart with Unlikely Fans |publisher=Businessweek |author=Spencer E. Ante |date=June 11, 2009}}</ref><ref name=publishersweekly>{{cite web| url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/devices/article/59324-scribd-launches-e-book-subscription-service.html |title=Scribd Launches E-book Subscription Service |author=Calvin Reid |publisher=Publisher’s Weekly |date=October 1, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, Scribd ranked as one of the top 20 [[social media]] sites according to Comscore.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/31/scribd-had-a-blowout-year-and-so-did-the-web-document/ |title=Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document |publisher=TechCrunch |date=2008-12-31 |accessdate=2012-07-11}}</ref> In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/start-ups/18download.html |title=Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2012-07-11}}</ref> and shortly thereafter closed a deal with [[Simon & Schuster]] to sell ebooks on Scribd.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/technology/internet/12books.html |title=Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2012-07-11}}</ref> In 2012, the company became profitable.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/scribd-redesign-2/ |title=Social Publishing Startup Scribd Gets A Facelift: New Website, New Logo, New iPhone App |author=Anthony Ha |publisher=TechCrunch |date=August 13, 2012}}</ref>
Friedman co-founded Scribd with fellow [[Harvard University]] student [[Trip Adler]]. The pair attended [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] in the summer of 2006, and launched Scribd from a [[San Francisco]] apartment in March 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/10/28/10-startups-that-helped-fuel-y.html?s=image_gallery |title=Y Combinator's 10 most valuable startup alumni |author=Cromwell Schubarth |publisher=Silicon Valley Business Journal |date=October 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/22/scribd-trip-adler-youtube |title=How Scribd made pages pay |author=Bobbie Johnson |publisher=The Guardian |date=July 22, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_25/b4136054153678.htm |title=Scribd: An E-Book Upstart with Unlikely Fans |publisher=Businessweek |author=Spencer E. Ante |date=June 11, 2009}}</ref><ref name=publishersweekly>{{cite web| url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/devices/article/59324-scribd-launches-e-book-subscription-service.html |title=Scribd Launches E-book Subscription Service |author=Calvin Reid |publisher=Publisher’s Weekly |date=October 1, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, Scribd ranked as one of the top 20 [[social media]] sites according to Comscore.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/31/scribd-had-a-blowout-year-and-so-did-the-web-document/ |title=Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document |publisher=TechCrunch |date=2008-12-31 |accessdate=2012-07-11}}</ref> In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/start-ups/18download.html |title=Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2012-07-11}}</ref> and shortly thereafter closed a deal with [[Simon & Schuster]] to sell ebooks on Scribd.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/technology/internet/12books.html |title=Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2012-07-11}}</ref> In 2012, the company became profitable.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/scribd-redesign-2/ |title=Social Publishing Startup Scribd Gets A Facelift: New Website, New Logo, New iPhone App |author=Anthony Ha |publisher=TechCrunch |date=August 13, 2012}}</ref>


In October 2013, Scribd launched a [[Subscription business model|subscription]] [[ebook]] service, and signed a deal with [[HarperCollins]] to make their backlist books available on Scribd.<ref name=publishersweekly/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/01/scribd-harpercollins-book-subscriptions/ |title=With HarperCollins Deal, Scribd Unveils Its Bid To Become The Netflix For Books |author=Anthony Ha |publisher=TechCrunch |date=October 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/01/29/scribd-takes-aim-amazon-bringing-subscription-ebook-app-kindle-fire/#!wGapz |title=Scribd takes aim at Amazon by bringing its subscription ebook app to the Kindle Fire |author=Josh Ong |publisher=The Next Web |date=January 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/business/media/harpercollins-pursues-e-book-subscription-service-with-scribd.html?_r=0 |title=HarperCollins Joins Scribd in E-Book Subscription Plan |author=Julie Bosman |publisher=The New York Times |date=October 1, 2013}}</ref> Scribd currently has more than 300,000 titles from 1,000 publishers in its book subscription service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579383381987497914 |title=What Your iPad Knows About You |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |author=Angela Chen |date=February 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>[https://www.scribd.com/about About Us]. ''Scribd''.</ref>
In October 2013, Scribd launched a [[Subscription business model|subscription]] [[ebook]] service, and signed a deal with [[HarperCollins]] to make their backlist books available on Scribd.<ref name=publishersweekly/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/01/scribd-harpercollins-book-subscriptions/ |title=With HarperCollins Deal, Scribd Unveils Its Bid To Become The Netflix For Books |author=Anthony Ha |publisher=TechCrunch |date=October 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/01/29/scribd-takes-aim-amazon-bringing-subscription-ebook-app-kindle-fire/#!wGapz |title=Scribd takes aim at Amazon by bringing its subscription ebook app to the Kindle Fire |author=Josh Ong |publisher=The Next Web |date=January 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/business/media/harpercollins-pursues-e-book-subscription-service-with-scribd.html?_r=0 |title=HarperCollins Joins Scribd in E-Book Subscription Plan |author=Julie Bosman |publisher=The New York Times |date=October 1, 2013}}</ref> Scribd currently has more than 300,000 titles from 1,000 publishers in its book subscription service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579383381987497914 |title=What Your iPad Knows About You |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |author=Angela Chen |date=February 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>[https://www.scribd.com/about About Us]. ''Scribd''.</ref>


As CTO, Friedman led one of the earliest and largest site-wide transitions of [[Adobe Flash]] to [[HTML5]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/06/scribd_ditches_flash_for_html5/ |title= 50 million user Scribd scraps Flash for HTML5 |date=6 May 2010 |author=Cade Metz |publisher=The Register}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/195889/scribd_ditches_flash_in_favor_of_html5.html |title=Scribd Ditches Flash in Favor of HTML5 |author=Harry McCracken |date=May 7, 2010 |publisher=PC World}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-05/07/scribd-ditches-flash-for-html5 |title=Scribd ditches Flash for HTML5 |publisher=Wired |date=May 10, 2010 |author=Michael Calore |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331051121/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-05/07/scribd-ditches-flash-for-html5 |archivedate=March 31, 2014 |df= }}</ref> Friedman was also notably opposed to the [[Stop Online Piracy Act]] (SOPA), and was quoted in [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]], [[The Washington Post]], [[VentureBeat]], [[ArsTechnica]], [[TechCrunch]], and [[Fox News]].<ref name=techcrunch>{{cite web |url =https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/21/scribd-protests-sopa/ |title=Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear | author=Erick Schonfeld |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/18/wikipedia-and-other-sites-shut-down-in-protest-of-sopa-and-pipa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121225054032/http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/18/wikipedia-and-other-sites-shut-down-in-protest-of-sopa-and-pipa/ |dead-url=yes |archive-date=December 25, 2012 |title=Wikipedia and Other Sites Shut Down in Protest of SOPA and PIPA |publisher=Fox News Insider |date=January 18, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/12/21/scribd-sopa/ |title=Scribd is disappearing word by word, page by page, thanks to SOPA |publisher=VentureBeat |author=J. O'Dell |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/business/friedman-says-scribd-opposes-anti-online-piracy-bill/2011/12/23/gIQA83wWEP_video.html |title=Friedman Says Scribd Opposes Anti-Online Piracy Bill |publisher=The Washington Post |date=December 23, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/protesting-sopa-what-you-can-do/ |title=Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard |author=Jon Brodkin |publisher=ArsTechnica|date=January 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/scribd-protests-sopa-with-disappearing-act/2011/12/21/gIQA3sDr9O_story.html |title=Scribd protests SOPA with disappearing act |publisher=The Washington Post |author=Hayley Tsukayama |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref> In protest to the bill, Scribd pulled its entire database—over 1,000,000,000 documents—from the internet on [[January 18, 2012]] for one day.<ref name=techcrunch/> Three days later, SOPA was postponed, which press outlets reported as the “death” of the bill.<ref>[http://rt.com/news/sopa-postponed-anonymous-piracy-337/ Bill Killed: SOPA death celebrated as Congress recalls anti-piracy acts]. Russian Times. January 19, 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/01/20/sopa-got-stopped-stop-online-piracy-bill-actually-dead/ |title=SOPA Got Stopped: Stop Online Piracy Bill Actually Dead |publisher=Forbes |author=David Thier |date=January 20, 2012}}</ref>
As CTO, Friedman led one of the earliest and largest site-wide transitions of [[Adobe Flash]] to [[HTML5]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/06/scribd_ditches_flash_for_html5/ |title= 50 million user Scribd scraps Flash for HTML5 |date=6 May 2010 |author=Cade Metz |publisher=The Register}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/195889/scribd_ditches_flash_in_favor_of_html5.html |title=Scribd Ditches Flash in Favor of HTML5 |author=Harry McCracken |date=May 7, 2010 |publisher=PC World}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-05/07/scribd-ditches-flash-for-html5 |title=Scribd ditches Flash for HTML5 |publisher=Wired |date=May 10, 2010 |author=Michael Calore |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331051121/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-05/07/scribd-ditches-flash-for-html5 |archivedate=March 31, 2014 |df= }}</ref> Friedman was also notably opposed to the [[Stop Online Piracy Act]] (SOPA), and was quoted in [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]], [[The Washington Post]], [[VentureBeat]], [[ArsTechnica]], [[TechCrunch]], and [[Fox News]].<ref name=techcrunch>{{cite web |url =https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/21/scribd-protests-sopa/ |title=Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear | author=Erick Schonfeld |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/18/wikipedia-and-other-sites-shut-down-in-protest-of-sopa-and-pipa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121225054032/http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/18/wikipedia-and-other-sites-shut-down-in-protest-of-sopa-and-pipa/ |dead-url=yes |archive-date=December 25, 2012 |title=Wikipedia and Other Sites Shut Down in Protest of SOPA and PIPA |publisher=Fox News Insider |date=January 18, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/12/21/scribd-sopa/ |title=Scribd is disappearing word by word, page by page, thanks to SOPA |publisher=VentureBeat |author=J. O'Dell |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/business/friedman-says-scribd-opposes-anti-online-piracy-bill/2011/12/23/gIQA83wWEP_video.html |title=Friedman Says Scribd Opposes Anti-Online Piracy Bill |publisher=The Washington Post |date=December 23, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/protesting-sopa-what-you-can-do/ |title=Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard |author=Jon Brodkin |publisher=ArsTechnica|date=January 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/scribd-protests-sopa-with-disappearing-act/2011/12/21/gIQA3sDr9O_story.html |title=Scribd protests SOPA with disappearing act |publisher=The Washington Post |author=Hayley Tsukayama |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref> In protest to the bill, Scribd pulled its entire database—over 1,000,000,000 documents—from the internet on [[January 18, 2012]] for one day.<ref name=techcrunch/> Three days later, SOPA was postponed, which press outlets reported as the “death” of the bill.<ref>[http://rt.com/news/sopa-postponed-anonymous-piracy-337/ Bill Killed: SOPA death celebrated as Congress recalls anti-piracy acts]. Russian Times. January 19, 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/01/20/sopa-got-stopped-stop-online-piracy-bill-actually-dead/ |title=SOPA Got Stopped: Stop Online Piracy Bill Actually Dead |publisher=Forbes |author=David Thier |date=January 20, 2012}}</ref>

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Jared Friedman
Born1984
Occupation(s)Co-founder and CTO of Scribd
Websitewww.scribd.com

Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the co-founder and CTO of Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.[1][2]

Scribd

Friedman co-founded Scribd with fellow Harvard University student Trip Adler. The pair attended Y Combinator in the summer of 2006, and launched Scribd from a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[3][4][5][6] In 2008, Scribd ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[7] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,[8] and shortly thereafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.[9] In 2012, the company became profitable.[10]

In October 2013, Scribd launched a subscription ebook service, and signed a deal with HarperCollins to make their backlist books available on Scribd.[6][11][12][13] Scribd currently has more than 300,000 titles from 1,000 publishers in its book subscription service.[14][15]

As CTO, Friedman led one of the earliest and largest site-wide transitions of Adobe Flash to HTML5.[16][17][18] Friedman was also notably opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and was quoted in Bloomberg, The Washington Post, VentureBeat, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, and Fox News.[19][20][21][22][23][24] In protest to the bill, Scribd pulled its entire database—over 1,000,000,000 documents—from the internet on January 18, 2012 for one day.[19] Three days later, SOPA was postponed, which press outlets reported as the “death” of the bill.[25][26]

Angel investor

Friedman is also an angel investor. His investments and advisory positions include: Parse (company), Swiftype, Creative Market, Vayable, MuckerLab, FundersClub, Goldbely, Instacart, JamLegend, Rickshaw, Madison Reed, Marco Polo, Colourlovers, Copyin, and Appszoom.[27][28][29][30]

Friedman became the 16th full-time partner at Y Combinator in October 2015.[31]

Honors

  • Named to TIME’s list of tech pioneers of 2010[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Dan Fletcher (2010). "Tech Pioneers 2010: Trip Adler and Jared Friedman". TIME.
  2. ^ Lynn Neary (October 4, 2013). "New E-Book Lending Service Aims To Be Netflix For Books". NPR.
  3. ^ Cromwell Schubarth (October 28, 2013). "Y Combinator's 10 most valuable startup alumni". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  4. ^ Bobbie Johnson (July 22, 2009). "How Scribd made pages pay". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Spencer E. Ante (June 11, 2009). "Scribd: An E-Book Upstart with Unlikely Fans". Businessweek.
  6. ^ a b Calvin Reid (October 1, 2013). "Scribd Launches E-book Subscription Service". Publisher’s Weekly.
  7. ^ Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 (2008-12-31). "Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2012-07-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  9. ^ "Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  10. ^ Anthony Ha (August 13, 2012). "Social Publishing Startup Scribd Gets A Facelift: New Website, New Logo, New iPhone App". TechCrunch.
  11. ^ Anthony Ha (October 1, 2013). "With HarperCollins Deal, Scribd Unveils Its Bid To Become The Netflix For Books". TechCrunch.
  12. ^ Josh Ong (January 29, 2014). "Scribd takes aim at Amazon by bringing its subscription ebook app to the Kindle Fire". The Next Web.
  13. ^ Julie Bosman (October 1, 2013). "HarperCollins Joins Scribd in E-Book Subscription Plan". The New York Times.
  14. ^ Angela Chen (February 18, 2014). "What Your iPad Knows About You". The Wall Street Journal.
  15. ^ About Us. Scribd.
  16. ^ Cade Metz (6 May 2010). "50 million user Scribd scraps Flash for HTML5". The Register.
  17. ^ Harry McCracken (May 7, 2010). "Scribd Ditches Flash in Favor of HTML5". PC World.
  18. ^ Michael Calore (May 10, 2010). "Scribd ditches Flash for HTML5". Wired. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ a b Erick Schonfeld (December 21, 2011). "Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear".
  20. ^ "Wikipedia and Other Sites Shut Down in Protest of SOPA and PIPA". Fox News Insider. January 18, 2012. Archived from the original on December 25, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  21. ^ J. O'Dell (December 21, 2011). "Scribd is disappearing word by word, page by page, thanks to SOPA". VentureBeat.
  22. ^ "Friedman Says Scribd Opposes Anti-Online Piracy Bill". The Washington Post. December 23, 2011.
  23. ^ Jon Brodkin (January 18, 2012). "Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard". ArsTechnica.
  24. ^ Hayley Tsukayama (December 21, 2011). "Scribd protests SOPA with disappearing act". The Washington Post.
  25. ^ Bill Killed: SOPA death celebrated as Congress recalls anti-piracy acts. Russian Times. January 19, 2012.
  26. ^ David Thier (January 20, 2012). "SOPA Got Stopped: Stop Online Piracy Bill Actually Dead". Forbes.
  27. ^ Jared Friedman. AngelList.
  28. ^ Ryan Lawler (April 2, 2013). "YC-Backed Vayable Launches Destinations To Crowdsource Interesting Things To Do In Cities Around The World". TechCrunch.
  29. ^ Jerry Yang (July 30, 2013). "Grid, An App That Helps You Organize Ideas And Projects, Announces A Seed Round From Jerry Yang, Phil Libin And Others". TechCrunch.
  30. ^ Sarah Perez (March 26, 2012). "Design Community Colourlovers Acquires Forrst". TechCrunch.
  31. ^ "Welcome Jared!". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
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