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Trip Adler

Co-founder and CEO, Created by Humans · 1 appearance on the record.

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Trip Adler is the co-founder and CEO of Created by Humans, an AI rights and licensing marketplace. He previously co-founded Scribd and served as its CEO for 16 years, building it into a major subscription reading service.

12statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.75/5average certainty → 1.25/5average debate potential →

3 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Trip argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Trip Adler: Scribd has raised approximately $50 million in total funding
“We raised fifty million at this point. So, so basically the trajectory was it was the first 12,000 from Y Combinator. Then we raised 40,000 in angel money. And then at that point we got some tractions. We really quickly went to raise three and a half million f…”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 3:14 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Scribd reached 100M monthly users between 2007 and 2011
“From the, from launch to a hundred million monthly users pretty quickly... Probably four years... Yeah, seven to 2011. I went from roughly zero to a hundred.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 6:00 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Trip Adler on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Trip Adler said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Trip Adler: $12,000 is still sufficient capital to launch an online service
“I mean back then you know, 12,000 was really, you know, it still is sufficient to get, get a service up and running.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 2:57 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trip Adler: Scribd is profitable and operating off its profits
“And at this point we're profitable, so we're just living off profits and, which is a good spot to be.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 3:43 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Disclosure
Adler: Scribd primarily pays publishers on a per-read basis
“The main type these days is we will pay by the read of the book. So this way it, from their perspective, it more or less looks like a sale. So just like they're selling the book, we'll pay them anytime the user reads the book.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 12:03 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Disclosure
Adler: Scribd pays publishers once users read 20% of a book
“So it's usually about 20% of the book is when that triggers the payment.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 12:26 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Supported
Trip Adler: Scribd has raised approximately $50 million in total funding
“We raised fifty million at this point. So, so basically the trajectory was it was the first 12,000 from Y Combinator. Then we raised 40,000 in angel money. And then at that point we got some tractions. We really quickly went to raise three and a half million f…”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 3:14 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Disclosure
Trip Adler: Scribd does not intend to raise additional capital
“We're not really intending to raise any more money for the time being.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 3:49 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Contradicted
Scribd reached 100M monthly users between 2007 and 2011
“From the, from launch to a hundred million monthly users pretty quickly... Probably four years... Yeah, seven to 2011. I went from roughly zero to a hundred.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 6:00 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Supported
Scribd has reached 1M books in its subscription catalog
“We were able to now get up to a million books in our service.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 7:30 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Scribd hosts 70M documents and attracts 100M monthly visitors
“Well, we have this library of seventy million documents that are uploaded by users and basically we have over a hundred million people a month who come to visit that library of content.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 9:27 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Scribd is growing at roughly 50% per year
“I mean, we're growing at maybe 50% per year right now.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 10:13 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Disclosure
Adler: Scribd is aiming to reach 1 million paying subscribers
“And I mean, the next one for us is a million subs. I mean, that's really what we're aiming toward. So that's a big one that we're looking forward to celebrating.”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 10:56 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
Assertion Supported
Adler: Scribd operates on a single $9 monthly subscription
“So Scribd's a subscription service for reading. So what you can do is pay nine dollars a month, and then you can read books, audio books, magazines, newspapers, documents on whatever device you like. So so it's all basically funded by our consumers who pay the…”
Trip Adler Mar 20, 2018 ▶ 1:19 969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books Mar 20, 2018 8m
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