How to make a website full of crap

1) Say that people can download anything as long as they upload something
in return
2) Dont check that what they upload isnt utter crap

Founding (2007-2013)
Scribd began as a site to host and share documents.[13] While at Harvard, Trip Adler was
inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic
papers. [15] His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his
medical research published. [15] Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share
written content online. [16] He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the
inaugural class of Y Combinator in the summer of 2006.[17] There, Scribd received its initial
$12,000 in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[6]
Scribd was called the Youtube for documents, allowing anyone to self-publish on the site
using its document reader. [15] The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and
PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds. [18]
In its first year, Scribd grew 218 percent with 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008. [19]
It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[20]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell
digital copies of their work online.[21] That same month, the site partnered with Simon &
Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd.[22] The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available
for purchase on Scribd, including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan
Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark. [23]
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and
MediaBistro.[24] ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December
2009.[25] In August 2010, many notable documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral,
including the California Proposition 8 ruling, which received 6,000 views per second, and
HPs lawsuit against Mark Hurds move to Oracle.[26] [27]

Subscription service (2013-present)

In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-books.[28]
This gave users unlimited access to Scribds library of digital books for a flat monthly fee. [29]
The company also announced a partnership with HarperCollins which made the entire
backlist of HarperCollins catalog available on the subscription service, including Sarah
Silvermans The Bedwetter, Kevin Wilsons The Family Fang, and Just As I Am: The
Autobiography of Billy Graham.[30] According to Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer
at HarperCollins, this marked the first time that the publisher has released such a large
portion of its catalog.[31] In March 2014, Scribd announced a deal with Lonely Planet, offering
the travel publishers entire library on its subscription service.[32]
In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription offering with 10,000 titles from Simon
& Schuster. [33] These titles included works from authors such as: Stephen King, Doris Kearns
Goodwin, Ray Bradbury, Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Isaacson, Chuck Klosterman, David
McCullough, and Ernest Hemingway. [34]

Audiobooks
In November 2014, Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription library. [35] Wired noted that
this was the first subscription service to offer unlimited access to audiobooks, and it
represents a much larger shift in the way digital content is consumed over the net. [36] In
April 2015, the company expanded its audiobook catalog in a deal with Penguin Random
House.[37] This added 9,000 audiobooks to its platform including titles from authors like Lena
Dunham, John Grisham, Gillian Flynn, and George R.R. Martin.[38]

Comics
In February 2015, Scribd introduced comics to its subscription service. [39] The company
added 10,000 comics and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Archie, Boom!
Studios, Dynamite, IDW, and Valiant. [11] Through the service, subscribers now had access to
series such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, X-O Manowar, and The Avengers. [40][41]

Timeline
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers and smartphones.[42] In
April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature called "Readcast",[43] which allows automatic
sharing of documents on Facebook and Twitter.[44] Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its
integration of Facebook social plug-ins at the Facebook f8 Developer Conference.[45]
Scribd rolled out a redesign on September 13, 2010 to become, according to TechCrunch,
"the social network for reading".[46]
In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscription service, allowing readers to pay a
flat monthly fee in exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribd's book titles.[47]

Financials
The company was initially funded with US$12,000 from Y Combinator in 2006, and received
over US$3.7 million in June 2007 from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey Hills Group.[48][49]
In December 2008, the company raised US$9 million in a second round of funding led by

Charles River Ventures with re-investment from Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group.
[50]
David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO and founder of Yammer and Geni, joined Scribds
board of directors in January 2010. [51]
In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC
Investments of Australia and SVB Capital.[52] In January 2015, the company raised US$22
million in new funding from Khosla Ventures with partner Keith Rabois joining the Scribd
board of directors.[53]

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