Jared Friedman

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Jared Friedman
Born1984
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupation(s)Group Partner at Y Combinator and Co-founder of Scribd
Website www.scribd.com

Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. Previously, Friedman was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users. [1] [2]

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Scribd

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. [3] [4]

As CTO, [5] Friedman led one of the earliest and largest site-wide transitions of Adobe Flash to HTML5. [6] [7] [8] 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. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] 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. [9]

Angel investor

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. [15] [16] [17] [18]

Friedman became the 16th full-time partner at Y Combinator in October 2015. [19]

Honors

References

  1. 1 2 Dan Fletcher (2010). "Tech Pioneers 2010: Trip Adler and Jared Friedman". TIME.
  2. ↑ Lynn Neary (October 4, 2013). "New E-Book Lending Service Aims To Be Netflix For Books". NPR.
  3. ↑ Cromwell Schubarth (October 28, 2013). "Y Combinator's 10 most valuable startup alumni". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  4. ↑ Bobbie Johnson (July 22, 2009). "How Scribd made pages pay". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ Streitfeld, David (6 Jan 2014). "Author, author: Here's what readers think of your work". The New York Times . pp. D003. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  6. ↑ Cade Metz (6 May 2010). "50 million user Scribd scraps Flash for HTML5". The Register.
  7. ↑ Harry McCracken (May 7, 2010). "Scribd Ditches Flash in Favor of HTML5". PC World. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ Michael Calore (May 10, 2010). "Scribd ditches Flash for HTML5". Wired. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014.
  9. 1 2 Erick Schonfeld (December 21, 2011). "Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear".
  10. ↑ "Wikipedia and Other Sites Shut Down in Protest of SOPA and PIPA". Fox News Insider. January 18, 2012. Archived from the original on December 25, 2012.
  11. ↑ J. O'Dell (December 21, 2011). "Scribd is disappearing word by word, page by page, thanks to SOPA". VentureBeat.
  12. ↑ "Friedman Says Scribd Opposes Anti-Online Piracy Bill". The Washington Post. December 23, 2011. Archived from the original on May 21, 2014.
  13. ↑ Jon Brodkin (January 18, 2012). "Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard". ArsTechnica.
  14. ↑ Hayley Tsukayama (December 21, 2011). "Scribd protests SOPA with disappearing act". The Washington Post.
  15. ↑ Jared Friedman. AngelList.
  16. ↑ Ryan Lawler (April 2, 2013). "YC-Backed Vayable Launches Destinations To Crowdsource Interesting Things To Do In Cities Around The World". TechCrunch.
  17. ↑ Jerry Yang (July 30, 2013). "Grid, An App That Helps You Organize Ideas And Projects, Announces A Seed Round From Jerry Yang, Phil Libin And Others". TechCrunch.
  18. ↑ Sarah Perez (March 26, 2012). "Design Community Colourlovers Acquires Forrst". TechCrunch.
  19. ↑ "Welcome Jared!". Y Combinator. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
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