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Scribd

Scribd is a digital library providing subscription service for e-books, audiobooks and other documents.

Contents
AboutProduct
Timeline
Funding rounds
Products
People
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
News
References
About

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.

Product

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

August 11, 2020
Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn

Scribd will take over the operations of SlideShare on September 24, according to LinkedIn.

May 20, 2020
Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more.

Funding rounds

Funding round
Funding type
Funding round amount (USD)
Funding round date
Investment
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Scribd Series A round
Series A round
3,710,000
June 1, 2007
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David Sacks
Jeffrey Jordan
Marc Andreessen
Redpoint Ventures
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Scribd Series C round
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Series C round
13,000,000
January 18, 2011
Charles River Ventures
Redpoint Ventures
SVB Capital
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Scribd Series B round
Series B round
9,000,000
December 19, 2008
Charles River Ventures
Redpoint Ventures
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Scribd seed round
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Seed round
12,000
June 1, 2006
Y Combinator
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Scribd angel round
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Seed round
40,000
January 1, 2007
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People

Name
Role
LinkedIn

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

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Further reading

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title
Date
Link

Companies

Company
CEO
Location
Products/Services

News

Title
Author
Date
Publisher
Description
The best audiobook platforms, including Audible, Scribd, and Libby - Business Insider
Mara Leighton
January 13, 2021
Business Insider
Audiobooks help me stay entertained in quarantine while also making boring tasks (like walking or cleaning) fun. Here are the best apps I've used.
LinkedIn sells SlideShare to digital library Scribd for undisclosed sum
IANS
August 12, 2020
@bsindia
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced to sell SlideShare, the hosting platform for presentations and other professional content to US-based e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd
Daily Crunch: Android phones become earthquake detectors
Anthony Ha
August 11, 2020
TechCrunch
Google is using accelerometers in an interesting new way, Twitter allows everyone to limit tweet replies and Mozilla announces major layoffs. This is your Daily Crunch for August 11, 2020. The big story: Android phones become earthquake detectors Google said that smartphone accelerometers are sensitive enough to detect P-waves, which are the first waves to [...]
Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn
Anthony Ha
August 11, 2020
TechCrunch
SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. According to LinkedIn, Scribd will take over operation of the SlideShare business on September 24. Scribd CEO Trip Adler argued that the companies have very similar roots, both launching in 2006/2007 with stories on TechCrunch, and both of [...]
Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more
Anthony Ha
May 20, 2020
TechCrunch
E-book and audiobook subscrition service Scribd has been actively embracing and experimenting with bundling over the past couple years, creating joint offers with The New York Times and with Spotify and Hulu. Today it announced a slightly different take on the idea with Scribd Perks. These perks gives Scribd's paying subscribers (the service costs $8.99 per [...]
Scribd raises $58M for subscription e-books and audiobooks
Anthony Ha
November 25, 2019
TechCrunch
Scribd has raised $58 million in new funding led by growth firm Spectrum Equity. The company first launched as a document-sharing service in 2007 before creating an e-book subscription in 2013. It now offers access to a library of e-books, audiobooks, newspapers and magazines for $8.99 per month. (Access is unlimited for most subscribers, but [...]
Scribd introduces bite-sized nonfiction previews called Snapshots
Anthony Ha
June 26, 2019
TechCrunch
Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd is unveiling a new content type that it calls a Snapshot -- a distillation of a nonfiction book's key points, which can be read or listened to in 15 minutes or less. In fact, although it's only announcing Snapshots today, Scribd says it's already created around 500 of them, [...]
Scribd kicks off its original content initiative with a book about Robert Mueller
Anthony Ha
April 3, 2019
TechCrunch
Scribd is moving into the original content business with the release of "Mueller's War," a book by journalist Garrett Graff looking at the prosecutor's time as a marine in the Vietnam War. CEO Trip Adler revealed earlier this year that the subscription e-book and audiobook s...

References

scribd.com
Is a
Company

Company attributes

Industry
News
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Audiobook
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File sharing
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ebook
Location
San Francisco
Company status
Active
B2X
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B2C
CEO
Trip Adler
Founder
Trip Adler
Tikhon Bernstam
Jared Friedman
Crunchbase
crunchbase.com/organiz...n/scribd
Accelerator
Y Combinator
Accelerator Batch
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Y Combinator S06 Batch
Subsidiary
SlideShare
Number of Employees (ranges)
250–499
Full address
460 Bryant St San Francisco, California 94107, US
Investors
Vantage Point Capital Partners
Founded date
2005
Email address
press@scribd.com
Phone number
(415) 896-9890
Total funding amount (USD)
25,762,000
Latest funding round date
January 18, 2011
Competitors
Project Gutenberg
Issuu
IBooks
Slack (company)
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Google Play Books
Business model
Subscription

Other attributes

Blog
scribd.com/blog
Country
United States
Headquarters
San Francisco
Wikidata ID
Q1467888

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