Trip Adler | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

"The Harvard entrepreneur actually stuck it out long enough to earn his sheepskin before launching the start-up Scribd. Through the online-publishing, social-networking site (www.scribd.com), Adler aims to 'put every piece of content online.' It’s both a recipe for expanding access and a vision that could completely reinvent publishing. With newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and publishers like Simon and Schuster already lined up, Adler may have found the magic way to go from free to fee without missing a beat ..."