Scribd is a subscription media company that has created an unlimited reading subscription that provides access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, and more. The company was founded by Jared Friedman, John Adler, and Tikhon Bernstam in 2007 in San Francisco, California, United States.
The company offers its services to users with Android and iOS tablets, including smartphones, the Kindle Fire, and laptops. The company works with major publishers, authors, and original content creators of e-books, magazines, documents, and other mediums of information. They offer their products to their community of one million subscribers in over 190 countries.Subscribers can access an initial free trial for 30 days and then sign up to use the books and media for $9.99 per month after that.
Some of the publishing partners that Scribd works with includes Simon & Schuster, Wiley, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Planeta de Libros, Lonely Planet, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Fortune, People, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Entrepreneur, TIME, Bloomsbury, Popular Science, Fast Company, and more.
Timeline
Scribd will take over the operations of SlideShare on September 24, according to LinkedIn.
Funding rounds
People
Adrian Lienhard
Employee
Alex Bernardin
Employee
Allison Carlson
Employee
Amy Dacker
Employee
Angel Cravalho
Employee
Anuj Nijhawan
Employee
Augie Hill
Employee
Baris Yaman
Employee
Barry Kwok
Employee
Bill Tai
Board member
Bill Umoff
Employee
Chetana Deorah
Employee
Chris Agerton
Employee
Chris Polis
Employee
Courtney Greene
Employee
Craig Sherman
Investor
David Feldman
Employee
David Halloran
Employee
David Sacks
Investor
David Stainton
Employee
Dmytro Ilchenko
Employee
Dorris O'Brien
Employee
Edward Kinsey
Advisor
Elizabeth Dielentheis
Employee
Elliott Bisnow
Investor