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    SCRIBD HISTORY

    Scribd began as a site to host and share documents.[12] While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to
    publish academic papers.[14] His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research published.[14] Adler wanted to create a
    simple way to publish and share written content online.[15] He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the
    summer of 2006.[16] There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[6]

    Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document reader.[14] The document reader
    turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds.[17] In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly
    to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008.[18] It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[18]

    In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online.[19] That same month, the site partnered
    with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd.[20]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.[21]

    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.[17] ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009.[22] 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.[23][24

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