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
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.
addictive
Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.
books comic include main music sheet type
Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
dad journals months paper publish
I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.
learned original publish publishers readers web
The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.
expand music ourselves sheet types
We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.