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American entrepreneur and angel investor (born 1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups.[1] Previously, Jared was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.[2][3]
Jared Friedman | |
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Born | 1984 |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | Group Partner at Y Combinator and Co-founder of Scribd |
Website | www.scribd.com |
Friedman co-founded Scribd with fellow Harvard University student Trip Adler. The pair attended Y Combinator in the summer of 2006, and launched Scribd from a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[4][5][6][7] In 2008, Scribd ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[8] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,[9] and shortly thereafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.[10] In 2012, the company became profitable.[11]
In October 2013, Scribd launched a subscription ebook service, and signed a deal with HarperCollins to make their backlist books available on Scribd.[7][12][13][14] Scribd currently has more than 300,000 titles from 1,000 publishers in its book subscription service.[15][16]
As CTO,[17] Friedman led one of the earliest and largest site-wide transitions of Adobe Flash to HTML5.[18][19][20] Friedman was also notably opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and was quoted in Bloomberg, The Washington Post, VentureBeat, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, and Fox News.[21][22][23][24][25][26] In protest to the bill, Scribd pulled its entire database—over 1,000,000,000 documents—from the internet on January 18, 2012 for one day.[21] Three days later, SOPA was postponed, which press outlets reported as the "death" of the bill.[27]
Friedman is also an angel investor. His investments and advisory positions include: Parse (company), Swiftype, Creative Market, Vayable, MuckerLab, FundersClub, Goldbelly, Instacart, JamLegend, Rickshaw, Madison Reed, Marco Polo, Colourlovers, Copyin, and Appszoom.[28][29][30][31]
Friedman became the 16th full-time partner at Y Combinator in October 2015.[32]
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