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Websitescribd.com
Blogscribd.com/blog
CategoryConsumer Web
Email
Employees23
Founded3/07
Descriptionsocial publishing site

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San Francisco, USA
539 Bryant St
San Francisco, CA, 94107
USA

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Scribd

Scribd is a social publishing site where people upload and share creative writing and various documents, regardless of file format. The company claims more than 55 million unique users to the network each month and well-known users such as Barack Obama, the World Economic Forum, major publishers and New York Times-bestselling authors.

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    Scribd — Scribd Signs Deal with Simon & Schuster to Sell 5,000 eBooks (6/12/09)
    Posted 6/22/09 at 11:36am
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    Scribd — Scribd Launches Scribd Store, Online Marketplace for Original Written Works (5/18/09)
    Posted 6/22/09 at 11:31am
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    Scribd — Scribd Partners with Major Publishers to Bring Books, Exclusive Content to Community of More Than 50 Million (3/18/09)
    Posted 3/24/09 at 1:38pm
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    Scribd received $9M in Series B funding. (12/19/08)
    Posted 12/19/08 at 1:01am
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    Scribd — Scribd secures $9 million in Series B financing (12/08)
    Posted 1/20/09 at 12:33pm
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    Scribd — Lulu.com Teams Up With Scribd to Offer Most Popular Free Content via iPaper (7/17/08)
    Posted 7/17/08 at 2:00pm
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    Scribd received $3.71M in Series A funding. (6/1/07)
    Posted 6/1/07 at 11:49pm
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    Scribd received $40k in Angel funding. (1/07)
    Posted 6/1/07 at 11:38pm
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    Scribd received $12k in Seed funding. (6/1/06)
    Posted 6/1/07 at 11:36pm
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    Scribd added Jared Friedman as CTO and Co-Founder.
    Posted 6/4/07 at 11:18pm
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    Scribd added John "Trip" Adler as CEO and Co-Founder.
    Posted 6/4/07 at 11:16pm
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    Scribd added Tikhon Bernstam as COO and Co-Founder.
    Posted 6/4/07 at 11:19pm
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    Scribd added George Consagra as President.
    Posted 12/19/08 at 12:47am
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    Scribd added Bill Tai as Board of Directors.
    Posted 12/19/08 at 12:51am
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    Scribd added Geoff Yang as Board of Directors.
    Posted 12/19/08 at 12:51am

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Trip Adler on Hyved

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Added: 3/25/09

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Scribd

Websitescribd.com
Blogscribd.com/blog
StageLive
Launch DateMarch 6, 2007
Tags social-publishing, social-media, document-sharing

Scribd is a social publishing site, where people publish and share original writings and documents. The company claims more than 50 million unique users each month and more than 50,000 new documents uploaded every day. Users include authors, publishers, non-profits, corporations, media companies and millions of “average” people who upload creative writing, research reports, even sheet music and recipes.

As of January 2009, there were 5 million embeds of Scribd’s document reader, iPaper, on tens of thousands of other websites, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic.

iPaper turns PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text and other file formats into a web display that preserves the document’s original design. All documents are indexed during the upload process, which makes them easier to find on Google and other search engines.

Scribd’s vision is to “liberate the written word.”

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Above: Scribd Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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  1. Scribd “YouTube for Documents” Gets $300K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  4. Scribd chalks up another $9 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  5. Lulu.com Teams Up With Scribd to Offer Most Popular Free Content via iPaper (examiner.com) [edit]
  6. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  7. Wired (blog.wired.com) [edit]
  8. New York Times (nytimes.com) [edit]
  9. Fast Company (fastcompany.com) [edit]
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