Comments on: Scribd Raises $9 Million So You Can Continue To View PDFs Online

By: Scribd has an opportunity to make it big | Radical Marketer

Scribd has an opportunity to make it big | Radical Marketer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:39:48 +0000

[...] you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Love to see a Y Combinator startup to excel. Scribd is a good free offering to everybody and has an opportunity to make it big on the internet. [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:15:50 +0000

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By: Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document

Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:44:45 +0000

[...] which raised a $9 million B round earlier this month, grew 218 percent from November, 2007. Scribd is heads and shoulders above other [...]

By: BrownTown

BrownTown — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:26:25 +0000

Anyone know how much of the company they had to give up to secure the 9M? At what valuation? Clearly one term was to bring in someone with a few more years of shaving under his belt. Some maturity there will likely help. So long 24 yr old C-levels.

By: grace

grace — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:52:52 +0000

who says we operate out of Korea???

By: Bryan Goldberg

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:27:22 +0000

Glad to hear that this great company continues to thrive. Always nice to see another Rails site achieving success on a large scale.

By: grace

grace — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:56:36 +0000

dunno why techcrunch hasn’t written anything up. Maybe they own shares in scribd.

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Zoho: Best LittleCo of 2008 that Could … and Will | CloudAve — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:44:27 +0000

[...] of products Zoho offers somewhere above 20, for fear I would be wrong, but looking at some of the recent funding news to one-product companies, can you imagine what level of investment would it take to build a [...]

By: Scribed raises $9M and hires new President for online document publishing and sharing | Viraload

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Scribd Raises $9M So You Can Continue To View PDFs Online [...]

By: Andy Johns

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:22:47 +0000

Go Scribd! Good for the SEO’rs out there

By: coala

coala — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:43:17 +0000

I would love to have this locally, on my PC (as a Firefox add-on maybe?). I have to read a lot of PDFs that my colleagues send me and I cannot upload them anywhere but

1. I hate that typical “fuzzy” look of fonts in normal pdf viewer (Is that antialiasing? – I hate it, makes my eyes tired). I would like to see pdf as a normal web page.

2. I would love if I could use Firefox add-ons like that dictionary where you just point at the word you don’t know and you see a “bubble” with translation… it does not work with PDFs, only with normal web pages.

By: Scribd - מחסן אדיר מימדים של מסמכים ממשיך לגדול » בועות - הייטק , אבל ממש בקצרה

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:27:25 +0000

[...] ושיתוף של מסמכים מכל הסוגים ובעיקר PDF. ע”פ דיווח של TechCrunch, האתר הצליח בגיוס הון שני של 9 מיליון דולר מקרן הון [...]

By: Scribd - מחסן אדיר מימדים של מסמכים ממשיך לגדול » בועות - הייטק , אבל ממש בקצרה

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:27:24 +0000

By: Garry Tan

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:49:55 +0000

Congrats to Scribd — Jason and the whole team have always been insanely on-the-ball when it comes to responding to the community and it’s paying off.

By: Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:13:56 +0000

Sorry, Jeff, that’s not what I said at all. I said we remove it as *soon as it’s detected* or reported. If any one of the administrators comes across pornography or sexualized nudity in the course of administering the site, they remove it. I do regualr sweeps for it in recently uploaded documents, and I find and remove as much of it as I can. Which is not at all as fun as it sounds.

Yep, our proactive detection is human powered. Which is inherently imperfect, and does not at all imply that “at this moment we have no porn on your website.” As for our methodology not being very good, well, it’s not for lack of trying.

Bear in mind, we’re still a startup. The whole point of raising a Series B is to be able to hire talent and either acquire or develop better detection technology that will help us detect all possible pornography the moment it’s put up on the site. We want to get to a point where students of all ages can comfortably use the site.

Regardless, the notion of a laissez-faire policy regarding porn (or copyright for that matter) is just wrong.

By: Jeff Strupp

Jeff Strupp — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:31:02 +0000

So what you are describing is a “Re-active” approach. What I am describing is the need for a Pro-active approach.

You are waiting for a complaint.

If you do have ways to Pro-actively detect Porn, please enlighten me as to what those are. This of course would mean that at this very minute you have No porn on your website or your Pro-active detection is not good.

As I previously stated, I think it is a great service and I use it myself. I just wish I could let students use your site. I do appreciate you taking the time to answer my comment (twice).

By: Dave McClure

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:14:54 +0000

hmmm.. forgot to use the Connect option on comment.

mike/henry: maybe you guys should place that above form option?

if i’ve used Connect at least once, you might want to preference that option.

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:13:29 +0000

congrats to team at Scribd for raising their round in a tight market… it’s encouraging to know that interesting companies are still getting capital

(obviously you guys are doing something right!)

By: Kevin Milden

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:39:48 +0000

Yay for Scribd!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:23:58 +0000

HA! LOL Sorry, but that was awesome.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:19:51 +0000

Jeff, you’re way off base. We take porn VERY seriously. For each document that contains porn, I personally commit to researching the original source of the porn, even if it requires access to subscription based porn services. If I find the original source, I will peruse the rest of the site to determine the extent of porn that is published on the original site. After that, I will take a bathroom break. Five minutes later, I will resume browsing, and zealously seek out the next offending item. So please, before you judge a porno by its title, take a minute to see if you recognize any of the stars in the video.

By: Kimber Lockhart

Kimber Lockhart — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:19:46 +0000

It’s not just about PDFs, and in fact, I’d argue one of the best things about Scribd and other such services (disclosure: my company has a play in the document embedding space) is the ability to view all document formats online, in a single player. Certainly there is conversion to a single format (likely PDF) behind the scenes, but the magic lies in not having to know that is happening.

Congrats to Scribd on the raise. I think online document viewing and services built around it is one of the most promising new plays in document management.

By: Sneaky!

Sneaky! — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:55:23 +0000

Haha… They didn’t delete them. They’re just hiding them on the default search. Silly people, the tab bar on the top right still says the number of search results found.

And if you select from the drop down to display more than 20 results, voila! all the docs appear again. Pirated books and all.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:53:28 +0000

Not true, Daves. What you don’t realize is that much of the “stolen” content is on Scribd legally, through one of our publisher partnerships. As much as I hate to stoop to literary cliché, you can’t judge a book by its cover.

By: jason@tinycomb.com

jason@tinycomb.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:50:59 +0000

That’s why they raised the money. They can and will become profitable next year by converting leads for local businesses and sponsored docs. Here is how:

http://tinycomb...-for-documents/