Tikhon Berstam Biography

Tikhon Bernstam was the former CEO of Parse and the co-founder of Scribd (both Y Combinator graduates from the class of 2006). He actively invests in angel capital. The platform driving the following generation of mobile apps is called Parse. For $85 million, Facebook recently purchased Parse. The largest document-sharing website in the world, Scribd receives over 90 million unique visits each month and is frequently referred to as the "Youtube for Documents." In addition, Tikhon actively invests in over 15 startups, including Optimizely, Crowdtilt, and Zenpayroll. Tikhon entered the Y-Combinator program in 2006 and founded Scribd with Trip Adler and Jared Friedman after graduating from Dartmouth in the top two percent of his class. At Dartmouth, he excelled in studies like CS 25 Algorithms, which covered computer science. Additionally, Tikhon works as a developer. At Scribd and Parse, he produced a lot of code and managed much of the operations, spending a number of years on "pager duty." He has made contributions to several open-source initiatives, such as parse-ruby-client. He is recognized in the acknowledgments of the widely read book "Rails Tutorial" as one of "a lengthy list of Rubyists who have taught and inspired [the author] over the years." The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups, by Randall Stross, which is a book on Y-Combinator, also has a chapter about Tikhon.

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