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The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Trip Adler, founder of Scribd, to talk about creating the \u201cNetflix of reading\u201d (2:00), teaming up with newspapers (4:30), the evolving attitude to subscriptions (5:50), why less than 1% of users are paid subscribers (7:45), pivoting and pivoting again (9:05), taking on Amazon (11:20), the parallels to the music business (12:15), the generation gap (14:35), being classmates with Mark Zuckerberg (15:35), starting at Y Combinator (16:55), experimenting with a ride-sharing service (18:35), going from zero to 100 million users (19:05), the end of ownership (21:00), raising the company\u2019s first $12,000 and working out of the \u201cY-scraper\u201d (23:30), luring in venture capitalists (25:15), paywalls (29:30), splitting the pie with publishers (32:00), Scribd\u2019s trove of sheet music (33:10) and teaming up with The New York Times (33:45).

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