About
Scribd Inc. (pronounced ) is an American media company that operates four primary platforms: Scribd, Everand, SlideShare, and Fable. Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 240 million documents. Everand is a digital content subscription service offering a wide selection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and sheet music. SlideShare is an online platform featuring 25 million presentations uploaded by subject matter experts.
The company was founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Tony Grimminck took over as CEO in 2024.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jared Friedman, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedHarvard University3
Career
Occupation: businessperson.5
Legal issues and controversies
Controversies
In March 2009, the passwords of several Comcast customers were leaked on Scribd. The passwords were later removed when the news was published by The New York Times.
In July 2010, the script of The Social Network (2010) movie was uploaded and leaked on Scribd; it was promptly taken down per Sony's DMCA request.
Following a decision of the Istanbul 12th Criminal Court of Peace, dated March 8, 2013, access to Scribd is blocked for Internet users in Turkey.
In July 2014, Scribd was sued by Disability Rights Advocates (represented by Haben Girma), on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind and a blind Vermont resident, for allegedly failing to provide access to blind readers, in violation of the Americans with Disability Act. Scribd moved to dismiss, arguing that the ADA only applied to physical locations. In March 2015, the U.S. District Court of Vermont ruled that the ADA covered online businesses as well. A settlement agreement was reached, with Scribd agreeing to provide content accessible to blind readers by the end of 2017.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jared Friedman (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
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- 1WikidataJared Friedman on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJared Friedman on Wikipedia
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- 6WikidataScribd, Founder