Trip Adler

Founder

Co-founder and former CEO of Scribd. Harvard University graduate (biophysics) who co-founded Scribd after his father, Stanford neurosurgeon John R. Adler, described the difficulties of publishing academic papers. Served as CEO from founding until 2023.

Overview

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Founder

Companies

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Scribd $106M
Private Founder

Scribd is a digital reading subscription platform providing unlimited access to books, audiobooks, magazines, documents, and podcasts. Originally launched as a document-sharing platform dubbed "the YouTube for documents," the company pivoted to a subscription content model and now operates three products: Everand (book/audiobook subscriptions), Scribd (user-uploaded documents), and SlideShare (presentations, acquired from LinkedIn in 2020).

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