Tikhon Bernstam
{{short description|American Internet entrepreneur|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| known_for = Co-founding Parse.com and Scribd.com and Startup Angel Investing
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Tikhon Bernstam (born 1979) is an American Internet entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.
Background
Bernstam grew up in Palo Alto, California and then attended Dartmouth College, where he studied economics, computer science, and physics and graduated summa cum laude.{{cite news|title=Tikhon Bernstam: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=51994208&privcapId=138945792|accessdate=May 7, 2018}}
Bernstam attended the Y Combinator program in 2006, launching Scribd.{{cite web|last=Warner|first=Andrew|title=Scribd: How A Dropout Created A Document Sharing Site With Over 100 Mil Monthly Visitors – with Tikhon Bernstam|url=http://mixergy.com/tikhon-bernstam-parse-interview/|publisher=Mixergy}}
He went on to attend the Y Combinator program again in 2011, this time co-founding Parse, a platform to help mobile developers create mobile applications.{{cite web|last=O'dell|first=Jolie|title=A look at life inside Y Combinator from a two-time alumnus|date=August 25, 2011 |url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/08/25/y-combinator-parse/|publisher=VentureBeat}}{{cite web|last=Hoge|first=Patrick|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/11/09/scribd-co-founder-gets-7m-for-parse.html|title=Scribd co-founder gets $7M for Parse|publisher=San Francisco Business Times}}
Bernstam is also an Angel investor and has invested in over 50 companies so far, including Optimizely, Scentbird and Crowdtilt.{{cite web|title=Notable Founder Profile|url=https://angel.co/tikhon|publisher=AngelList}}
In 2012, Business Insider named Bernstam one of the top 15 CEOs to watch.{{cite web|last=Lynley|first=Matthew|title=Top 15 CEOs to watch|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/25-hot-ceos-of-silicon-valley-startups-you-cant-afford-to-ignore-2012-8#tikhon-bernstam-ceo-of-parse-7|publisher=Business Insider}}
Scribd.com
In 2006, Tikhon Bernstam and partners Trip Adler and Jared Friedman started Scribd, the world's largest document sharing site and a top 250 most visited site on the internet.{{cite web|title=Quantcast Verified Profile|url=https://www.quantcast.com/scribd.com#!traffic|access-date=November 1, 2013|archive-date=November 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104185422/https://www.quantcast.com/scribd.com#!traffic|url-status=dead}} Sometimes called the "YouTube for Documents," Scribd allows you to upload, share, and embed documents of almost any format.{{cite web|last=Biggs|first=John|title=Scribd "YouTube for Documents" Gets $300K|date=March 6, 2007 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/scribd-youtube-for-text-gets-300k/|publisher=Techcrunch}}
More than 80 million active users visit the world's largest digital library each month.
Over 150 publishers, including HarperCollins, Random House, Wiley, Workman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, Harvard University Press and Stanford University Press are associated with Scribd.{{cite web|last=Hucker|first=Wally|title=Scribd Signs Deal with Publisher HarperCollins to Become the Netflix of Books|url=http://www.marketnews.ca/LatestNewsHeadlines/ScribdSignsDealwithPublisherHarperCollinstoBecometheNetflixofBooks.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131101124857/http://www.marketnews.ca/LatestNewsHeadlines/ScribdSignsDealwithPublisherHarperCollinstoBecometheNetflixofBooks.html|archivedate=November 1, 2013|df=mdy-all}}
Parse.com
{{Main|Parse_(company)|l1 = Parse}}Parse is a cloud application platform powering tens of thousands of apps, including those for Cadillac, the Green Bay Packers, Home Depot, and the Food Network.{{cite web|last=Miners|first=Zach|title=Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business|url=https://www.cio.com/article/2386383/facebook-buys-parse--gets-into-development-tools-business.html}}{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Fast Company named Parse one of the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013.{{cite web|last=McCorvey|first=J.J.|title=Most Innovative Companies 2013|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2013/github-parse|publisher=Fast Company|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926135146/http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2013/github-parse|archivedate=September 26, 2015|df=mdy-all}}
Parse was founded in 2011 by Tikhon Bernstam,{{cite web|last=Kincaid|first=Jason|title=YC-Funded Parse: A Heroku For Mobile Apps|date=August 4, 2011 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/yc-funded-parse-a-heroku-for-mobile-apps/|publisher=Techcrunch|accessdate=4 August 2011}} Ilya Sukhar, James Yu, and Kevin Lacker, a small group of seasoned Googlers and Y Combinator alums who got together to build a useful set of back-end tools for mobile developers. Parse offers services that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud.
Facebook acquired Parse for $85 million in 2013.{{cite web|last=Rusli|first=Evelyn|title=Facebook to Buy Mobile Startup Parse in Cash-and-Stock Deal|work=Wall Street Journal |date=April 25, 2013 |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323789704578445311737656822|accessdate=25 April 2013}}{{cite web|last=Cutler|first=Kim-Mai|title=Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service|date=April 25, 2013 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/|publisher=Techcrunch}}{{cite web|last=Hickey|first=Matt|title=Facebook Buys Mobile App Platform Parse|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthickey/2013/04/25/facebook-buys-mobile-app-platform-parse/|work=Forbes|accessdate=25 April 2013}}{{cite web|last=Purdy|first=Doug|title=Welcoming Parse to Facebook|url=https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/04/25/welcoming-parse-to-facebook/|work=Facebook|publisher=Facebook blog}}
References
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External links
- [http://tikhon.com/ Tikhon Bernstam's Homepage]
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