Trip Adler

Trip Adler
Born (1984-06-24) June 24, 1984
Occupation Co-founder of Scribd
Website www.scribd.com

John R. "Trip" Adler III (born June 24, 1984) is an American entrepreneur.[1] He is the CEO and co-founder of Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.[1][2][3]

Background and early career

Adler grew up in Palo Alto, California. He graduated from Harvard University with a biophysics degree in June 2006.[4] His father, John R. Adler, is a neurosurgeon at Stanford University and also an entrepreneur.[1]

Among his schoolmates at Harvard, Trip was known by a colorful array of nicknames including Tiny, Golden Boy, Tiny Tony, Stone Pony, Nerd, Nerdman, and Entreprenerd.[5]

After graduating from Harvard, Adler contemplated starting various online ventures, including a ride-sharing service, a Craigslist-type site for colleges, a call center called 1-800-ASKTRIP, and a social media site called "Rate your happiness."[6]

Scribd

Adler received inspiration for Scribd from a conversation with his father, who had difficulty publishing an academic paper in a medical journal.[4] Adler then built Scribd with Jared Friedman, a fellow Harvard student, and they attended Y Combinator in the summer of 2006.[7][8][9] Scribd was launched from a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[10] In 2008, it ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[11] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,[12] and shortly thereafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.[13] In 2012, the company became profitable.[14]

In October 2013, Scribd launched a subscription ebook service, and signed a deal with HarperCollins to make their backlist books available on Scribd.[10][15][16][17] Scribd currently has more than Scribd was know for unlimited audiobooks and downloadable books however in late 2015 and early 2016 the subscription has been dramatically downgraded to a reduced subscription service.

Scribd 300,000 titles from 1,000 publishers in its book subscription service.[18][19]

Personal life

As a member of the Harvard Surfing team, Adler Participated in the first Ivy League Surf Championships in May 2003.[20] He also plays the saxophone.[1][21] In 2007, Adler earned the company’s first $17 in revenue by playing the saxophone outside Scribd’s office at Christmas time.[1]

Reception

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Jessica Guynn (November 10, 2013). "Scribd co-founder wrote his own story". Los Angeles Times.
  2. Jeff Bercovici and Emily Inverso (2014). "30 Under 30: Trip Adler". Forbes.
  3. Lynn Neary (October 4, 2013). "New E-Book Lending Service Aims To Be Netflix For Books". NPR.
  4. 1 2 "John R. "Trip" Adler III '06 (Physics) Broke Tradition but Still Ended up on Top". Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  5. url=http://www.tumblr.com/blog/captain-johnnyboy
  6. Penenberg, Adam L. (June 18, 2012). "How Trip Adler Found His Idea For Scribd After Hanging Up On 1-800-ASKTRIP". Fast Company. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  7. Cromwell Schubarth (October 28, 2013). "Y Combinator's 10 most valuable startup alumni". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  8. Bobbie Johnson (July 22, 2009). "How Scribd made pages pay". The Guardian.
  9. Spencer E. Ante (June 11, 2009). "Scribd: An E-Book Upstart with Unlikely Fans". Businessweek.
  10. 1 2 Calvin Reid (October 1, 2013). "Scribd Launches E-book Subscription Service". Publisher’s Weekly.
  11. "Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document". TechCrunch. 2008-12-31. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  12. "Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  13. "Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  14. Anthony Ha (August 13, 2012). "Social Publishing Startup Scribd Gets A Facelift: New Website, New Logo, New iPhone App". TechCrunch.
  15. Anthony Ha (October 1, 2013). "With HarperCollins Deal, Scribd Unveils Its Bid To Become The Netflix For Books". TechCrunch.
  16. Josh Ong (January 29, 2014). "Scribd takes aim at Amazon by bringing its subscription ebook app to the Kindle Fire". The Next Web.
  17. Julie Bosman (October 1, 2013). "HarperCollins Joins Scribd in E-Book Subscription Plan". The New York Times.
  18. Angela Chen (February 18, 2014). "What Your iPad Knows About You". The Wall Street Journal.
  19. About Us. Scribd.
  20. "60 SECONDS". SURFING Magazine. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
  21. Christmas at Scribd featuring Trip Adler
  22. Dan Fletcher (2010). "Tech Pioneers 2010: Trip Adler and Jared Friedman". TIME.
  23. Arik Hesseldahl (2010). "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010". Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
  24. "30 Under 30: Trip Adler". Forbes. 2014.

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