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Jared Friedman

Group Partner at Y Combinator

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Jared Friedman is currently a Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he has invested in and supported numerous successful startups. With a background as a Co-Founder & CTO at Scribd.com, he brings expertise in entrepreneurship, growth hacking, and strategic partnerships to his role in the San Francisco Bay Area. Friedman's career highlights include co-founding Scribd.com and making strategic investments in startups like Slope and RetailReady, demonstrating his ability to drive innovation and growth in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Group Partner

    2015 - Current

    Helping people start startups.

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    2005 - 2015

    Scribd is building the library of the digital age. We've grown to over 250 amazing people, serving 80 million users / month.

Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.

Raised $106,750,000.00 from Spectrum Equity.

  • Angel Investor

    2007 - 2015

    Invested in some awesome companies including Cruise, Instacart, Ironclad, and Rappi

  • Summer Associate

    2005 - 2005

    Sought alpha.

Bridgewater manages approximately $120 billion in global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign

Raised $22,000,000.00.

  • Member of the Technical Staff

    2004 - 2004

    Research in Artificial Intelligence. Cool stuff.

Cycorp develops enterprise software products using logic-based machine reasoning.

Raised $7,000,000.00.

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