– Startups – Trip Adler of Scribd – TWiST #273

1:00 Jason introduces Trip Adler, co-founder of Scribd. Trip, welcome to the program. 1:30 How many people were in the 2006 Ycombinator class in Boston? 2:15 Thank you to SquareSpace for supporting the show! If you need to build high quality sites, use the promo code TWiST7 to sign up for Squarespace. 5:00 What idea did you get into Ycombinator with? 6:30 What were first couple of ideas that led to Ycombinator and Scribd? 10:00 When everyone thought that incubators were for weak entrepreneurs, how did Paul get winners into Ycombinator? 11:15 Paul doesn’t like the idea so you come up with another idea, which is? 13:00 When did you pull the plug on that idea? 14:00 Are you a competitive guy? 17:45 So then what led you to Scribd? 20:30 How many documents and users did you get in that first year and what was it like to scale it? 21:30 Had many issues with the DMCA for a long time, when get back from commercial want to hear how you guys got over it. 21:15 Thank you GoToMeeting, a service that I use for all my meetings. Everyone thank @GoToMeeting! 23:30 How’d you guys clear yourselves of copyright/piracy issues of uploaded documents legally and operationally? 29:00 Scribd has about 90 million people outside the US using their service, was that by design that you’d have such a high international user base? 30:15 Are you building organizations in those countries, do you have international operations? 32:30 How is the new model of selling direct going? 33:15 With this sort of …
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