Scribd
Subscription-based digital library offering unlimited access to books, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, and documents for $9/month.
Est. Valuation
$270M
$270,000,000 · 5× ARR estimate
Monthly Revenue (MRR)
$4.5M
$4,500,000/mo
Annual Revenue (ARR)
$54M
$54,000,000/yr
Employees
120
Founded
2007
Scribd Revenue History
Revenue history for Scribd from 2018 to 2026.
| Year | MRR | ARR | YoY Growth | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $4,500,000 | $54,000,000 | — | Mar 2018 |
How Scribd Makes Money
Scribd Funding
Scribd is fully bootstrapped with no outside funding. The company has grown to $54,000,000 ARR organically.
Scribd Founders
Trip Adler
CEO and Co-founder
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How We Estimate Scribd's Revenue & Valuation
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- Self-reported — numbers publicly shared by the founder on X, blog posts, or interviews.
- Estimated — derived from publicly available signals (traffic, employee count, pricing, comparables).
Valuation follows a hierarchy: public companies use the live market cap; private companies with disclosed funding rounds use the last reported valuation; otherwise we apply a conservative 5× ARR multiple as an estimate. Multiples vary by business model — SaaS typically sits 5–7×, profitable bootstrapped operations 3–5×, consumer brands 1–3×, marketplaces 8–12×.
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