Jared Friedman Email Address

Group Partner

Based in foggy San Francisco, Scribd is building the world's largest online library of books, audiobooks, comic books, and sheet music. Since we launched our membership reading service in 2013, our readers have clocked more than 20 million hours of reading and listening across all genres. \r\n\r\nWe've partnered with some of the world's leading publishers to build a library of more than one million books, audiobooks, and comics, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, celebrity authors and narrators, beloved comics series, acclaimed graphic novels, and reader favorites across every genre, and we get new arrivals every day. We also combine industry-leading discoverability and personalized recommendations by our editorial experts to guide our readers to their next favorite read.\r\n\r\nIn addition to making the best reading service around, we've also built the world's most popular open platform for publishing and sharing documents of all kinds. Since launching the original Scribd platform in 2007, our users have shared more than 80 million documents via Scribd, from landmark court filings to business presentations to academic papers from scholars around the world.

I love startups. I've been fortunate to get to participate in almost every role: founder, hacker, manager, employee, investor, advisor. I strongly believe that silicon valley is building the future. Living in San Francisco is like living in a time bubble that's stuck 5 years ahead of the rest of the world. Decades from now we will look back on this time and place as the most productive and innovative of all time. I studied CS at Harvard but dropped out the year after Mark Zuckerberg because life is too short to not feel like you are having the most impact you can at every moment. I write code every day. It keeps me sane. Specialties: Growth hacking, monetization, raising money, finding product/market fit, marketplaces, data science, recruiting, running engineering orgs, dealing with uncertainty, refusing to give up.