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    Founding (2007–2013)

    Scribd began as a site to host and share


    documents.[10] While at Harvard, Trip
    Adler was inspired to start Scribd after
    learning about the lengthy process
    required to publish academic papers.[12]
    His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told
    it would take 18 months to have his
    medical research published.[12] Adler
    wanted to create a simple way to publish
    and share written content online.[13] He
    co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman
    and attended the inaugural class of Y
    Combinator in the summer of 2006.[14]
    There, Scribd received its initial $120,000
    in seed funding and then launched in a
    San Francisco apartment in March
    2007.[5]

    Scribd was called "the YouTube for


    documents", allowing anyone to self-
    publish on the site using its document
    reader.[12] The document reader turns
    PDFs, Word documents, and
    PowerPoints into Web documents that
    can be shared on any website that allows
    embeds.[15] In its first year, Scribd grew
    rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of
    November 2008.[16] It also ranked as one
    of the top 20 social media sites
    according to Comscore.[16]

    In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd


    Store, enabling writers to easily upload
    and sell digital copies of their work
    online.[17] That same month, the site
    partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell
    e-books on Scribd.[18] The deal made
    digital editions of 5,000 titles available
    for purchase on Scribd, including books
    from bestselling authors like Stephen
    King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins
    Clark.[19]

    In October 2009, Scribd launched its


    branded reader for media companies
    including The New York Times, Los
    Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The
    Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and
    MediaBistro.[15] ProQuest began
    publishing dissertations and theses on
    Scribd in December 2009.[20] In August
    2010, many notable documents hosted
    on Scribd began to go viral, including the
    California Proposition 8 ruling, which
    received over 100,000 views in about 24
    minutes, and HP's lawsuit against Mark
    Hurd's move to Oracle.[21][22]

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