Career
Y Combinator
Partner
Responsibilities
Helping people start startups.
Platform
Resources
Pricing
Managing Director, Software and Group Partner / Y Combinator
Jared Friedman is an American entrepreneur and angel investor, best known as the co-founder and former CTO of Scribd, a leading digital library and document-sharing platform. He is currently a Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he helps people start and scale their startups. Friedman is a college dropout who left Harvard to pursue his entrepreneurial ventures and is recognized as a techno-optimist and active angel investor.
Partner
Helping people start startups.
Co-Founder & CTO
Scribd is building the library of the digital age. We've grown to over 250 amazing people, serving 80 million users / month.
Angel Investor
Invested in some awesome companies including Cruise, Instacart, Ironclad, and Rappi
Summer Associate
Sought alpha.
Member of the Technical Staff
Research in Artificial Intelligence. Cool stuff.
A.B.
A.B. - Computer Science, Economics
N/A
Core technical and professional competencies derived from his experience as a CTO, investor, and YC Partner.
Start-ups
Venture Capital
Angel Investing
Fundraising
Business Strategy
Business Development
Entrepreneurship
Building World Class Teams
Recruiting
Strategic Partnerships
Leadership
Product Vision
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Scalability
Web Development
Mobile Applications
System Architecture
Quantitative Analytics
Growth Hacking
AI/ML Research
Financial Modeling
Venture Capital, Startup Acceleration, Technology Investment
Digital Publishing, AI Agents, Biotechnology (via YC)
Techno-Optimist, Visionary, Entrepreneurial, College Dropout
Founder-Focused, Strategic, Data-Driven, Risk-Taker
Male 65.7%, Female 34.3%
25-34 (64.5%), 35-54 (17.8%), 18-24 (12.4%)
US (13.1%), BR (11.7%), IR (8.6%), IN (7.0%)
Tehran (2.7%), Baghdad (2.2%), New York (1.5%)
followers
49.3K followers
Jared Friedman is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding Scribd and serving as a Managing Director at Y Combinator.
He joined Y Combinator in October 2015 and currently serves as a Managing Director, Software and Group Partner.
No, he is a college dropout who left Harvard University to pursue his entrepreneurial ventures, including Scribd.
During his tenure as co-founder and CTO, Scribd raised approximately $26 million in funding.
He maintains an active presence on Twitter/X with approximately 49.3K followers and 21.2K followers on LinkedIn.