Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, Scribd initially operated under a user-generated content model. It was often described as the "YouTube for documents." The platform allowed users to upload PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, making them instantly viewable in a web browser via a custom flash-based reader (and later HTML5).
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