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Tikhon is the co-founder of Scribd. Scribd is the world's largest document sharing site. It is a Top 100 most visited site on the Internet. Scribd is sometimes called the "Youtube for Documents" and lets you upload, share, and embed documents of almost any format. Companies like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Techcrunch use Scribd to embed documents into their websites. With over 50 employees, Scribd is profitable and growing steadily. Tikhon helped to raise over $25M for Scribd through three rounds of venture capital funding.
Previously, Tikhon was the founder and CEO of Parse. Parse sold to Facebook for $85M in 2013. Parse is the mobile app platform powering tens of thousands of apps, including ones by Cadillac, the Green Bay Packers, Home Depot, and the Food Network. Parse makes it much faster and easier to create native mobile applications.
He graduated from Dartmouth College, summa cum laude.
personal website: www.tikhon.com
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