HTML5 and The Future of Publishing

Jared Friedman is Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Scribd. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Scribd technology, engineering, product, and monetization. Jared started to build Scribd during his junior year at Harvard University by converting a dorm room closet into a data center and coding for months straight. Today, Scribd is the world’s largest social publishing and reading site with over 50 million unique readers every month and tens of thousands of documents uploaded daily. Prior to Scribd, Jared worked at Cycorp, Inc., a leader in the semantic software space specializing in artificial intelligence, and studied Computer Science at Harvard University. His favorite Scribd document is High Performance Websites.

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