Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups.[1] Previously, Jared was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.[2][3]
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.[4][5][6][7] In 2008, Scribd ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[8] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,[9] and shortly thereafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.[10] In 2012, the company became profitable.[11]
In October 2013, Scribd launched a subscriptionebook service, and signed a deal with HarperCollins to make their backlist books available on Scribd.[7][12][13][14] Scribd currently has more than 300,000 titles from 1,000 publishers in its book subscription service.[15][16]
^Cade Metz (6 May 2010). "50 million user Scribd scraps Flash for HTML5". The Register.
^Harry McCracken (May 7, 2010). "Scribd Ditches Flash in Favor of HTML5". PC World.
^Michael Calore (May 10, 2010). "Scribd ditches Flash for HTML5". Wired. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014.
^ abErick Schonfeld (December 21, 2011). "Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear".
^"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.
^J. O'Dell (December 21, 2011). "Scribd is disappearing word by word, page by page, thanks to SOPA". VentureBeat.
^"Friedman Says Scribd Opposes Anti-Online Piracy Bill". The Washington Post. December 23, 2011. Archived from the original on May 21, 2014.
^Jon Brodkin (January 18, 2012). "Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard". ArsTechnica.
^Hayley Tsukayama (December 21, 2011). "Scribd protests SOPA with disappearing act". The Washington Post.
^Ryan Lawler (April 2, 2013). "YC-Backed Vayable Launches Destinations To Crowdsource Interesting Things To Do In Cities Around The World". TechCrunch.
^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.