Created By Humans: Trip Adler & His Dad

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 the question at the heart of it all: how do you decide if a company is still worth fighting for? Trip’s journey, from Scribd’s hard earned success to starting Created by Humans, shows that sometimes making it simply comes down to not giving up.