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Scribd Split Its Library Into Four - and Found a Bigger Story
The company once pitched one enormous digital shelf. Now it is betting that documents, decks, books and book clubs work better in separate rooms - connected by a single subscription strategy and a growing layer of AI.
Gjergj Demiraj
Gjergj Demiraj is the President and CEO of Gutenberg Technology, a Boston-based edtech company whose end-to-end content management platform helps publishers and enterprises author, reuse, and distribute learning content at scale. A polyglot with an international consulting background in finance, telecom, and media, he joined the company in 2012, opened its US office in Boston in 2016, and took the top job in 2019 after helping shape the business across every department. He co-founded the French crowdfunding platform Anaxago and earlier advised global publishing groups on digital transformation at EidosMedia in Milan and Paris.
Trip Adler
Trip Adler is a San Francisco tech founder who co-founded Scribd in 2007 and ran it for 16 years, building it into a reading platform used by roughly 100 million people. In 2024 he launched Created by Humans, a licensing marketplace that lets authors and other creators set terms and get paid when AI companies use their work to train and run models. His pitch is not to fight AI in court but to build the plumbing for a fair market between creators and the labs racing to license high-quality content.