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Jared Friedman
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Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. Previously, Friedman was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users. Scribd Friedman co-founded Scribd with fellow Harvard University student Trip Adler. The pair attended Y Combinator in the summer of 2006, and launched Scribd from a San Francisco apartment in March 2007. As CTO, Friedman led one of the earliest and largest site-wide transitions of Adobe Flash to HTML5. Friedman was also notably opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and was quoted in Bloomberg, The Washington Post, VentureBeat, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, and Fox News. In protest to the bill, Scribd pulled its entire database—over 1,000,000,000 documents—from the internet on January 18, 2012 for one day. Friedman became the 16th full-time partner at Y Combinator in October 2015. Honors *Named to TIME’s list of tech pioneers of 2010<ref name="time"/> 
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