Rashmi Sinha launches Jaunt with Jon Boutelle and Amit Ranjan.– 2006 Rashmi, Jon & Amit launched SlideShare.– 2007 Inspired by her, YouTube and Flickr, I launched edocr.com. Trip Adler launched Scribd, Jason Nazar launched Docstoc all in the same year. – 2012 LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for $118 m– 2013 Intuit acquired Docstoc and killed it in less than a year.– 2015 Accusoft acquired edocr.com from me.– LinkedIn just sat on Slideshare – shame to have to watch its decline. Once the darling of Silicon Valley and loved by folks like Guy Kawasaki.– 2020 LinkedIn handover SlideShare to Trip Adler.– 2024…
The man who built Manchester's Tech Startup Ecosystem