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Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 195 million documents and offers unlimited access to ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and sheet music. Founded in 2007, Scribd also operates Everand and SlideShare, and has partnerships with major publishers and media companies.
Adler received inspiration for Scribd from a conversation with his father, who had difficulty publishing an academic paper in a medical journal. [4] Adler then built Scribd with Jared Friedman, a fellow Harvard student, and they attended Y Combinator in the summer of 2006. [6] [7] [8] Scribd was launched from a San Francisco apartment in March ...
In 2006, Tikhon Bernstam and partners Trip Adler and Jared Friedman started Scribd, the world's largest document sharing site and a top 250 most visited site on the internet. [7] Sometimes called the "YouTube for Documents," Scribd allows you to upload, share, and embed documents of almost any format. [ 8 ]
Jared Friedman is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform.
SlideShare is a platform for uploading and viewing presentations, infographics, documents, and videos in different formats. It was founded in 2006, acquired by LinkedIn in 2012, and by Scribd in 2020.
ScienceDirect is a web-based platform that provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications from Elsevier and other publishers. It covers various disciplines, formats and geospatial areas, and offers subscription and open access options.
Haben Girma is an American disability rights advocate and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School. She was born in Oakland, California to Eritrean immigrants and has worked to increase access to digital information and services for people with disabilities.
OverDrive, Inc. is a company that provides digital content management and distribution services for libraries, schools, publishers and other industries. It operates the apps Libby, Kanopy and Sora, and has a history of acquisitions and partnerships in the ebook and streaming video markets.