Tikhon Bernstam Biography

Co-founder of Scribd (Y Combinator 2006) and former CEO of Parse (Y Combinator 2011) is Tikhon Bernstam. He invests in angels actively. The platform driving the newest wave of mobile applications is called Parse. Parse was recently purchased by Facebook for $85 million. The largest document-sharing website in the world, Scribd (often referred to as the "Youtube for Documents") receives over 90 million unique visitors each month. Optimizely, Crowdtilt, and Zenpayroll are just a few of the over 15 businesses in which Tikhon is an active angel investor. Tikhon founded Scribd with Trip Adler and Jared Friedman in 2006 after completing his studies at Dartmouth in the top two percent of his class. He excelled in a number of computer science courses at Dartmouth, including CS 25 Algorithms. Tikhon is a working developer as well. At Scribd and Parse, he handled most of the operations in addition to writing a significant amount of code, spending several years on "pager duty." He has given back to open-source initiatives like parse-ruby-client. He is listed as one of "a lengthy list of Rubyists who have taught and inspired over the years" in the acknowledgments of the extremely well-known book "Rails Tutorial." Tikhon is also discussed in "The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups," a book by Randall Stross about the startup accelerator.

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