Leap Forward
Leap Forward
David Rusenko
Created By Humans: Trip Adler & His Dad
27 minutes Posted May 27, 2026 at 8:00 am.
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Scribd took off fast - then hit a wall that nearly broke the company. In this episode, Trip Adler tells the story of building the “Netflix for books,” only to face the moment every founder dreads: when everything comes tumbling down, as growth stalled and much of the team walked away. But while others quit, Trip stayed - spending years rebuilding the company and eventually growing it to more than $300 million in revenue. We also talked to his dad, John Adler - an entrepreneur himself - about...