Trip Adler
Trip Adler
John R. "Trip" Adler IIIis an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 June 1984
CountryUnited States of America
likely trait
I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
best realized
We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model.
deliver gains good product users
If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.
anytime bunch companies enter space
Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market.
involves solving tackling
Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.
I was in the class they made 'The Social Network' about.
Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.
If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.
The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.