In this presentation on Slideshare, I have tried to provide the entire timeline of events that affected Slideshare's journey. Slideshare went through various stages of feature additions and acquisitions during its journey. SLIDESHARE WAS ACQUIRED FROM LINKEDIN BY SCRIBD INC., SCRIBD TOOK OVER SLIDESHARE OPERATIONS FROM SEPTEMBER 2020. Slideshare went through a complete metamorphosis from the time it started and is now the No.1 corporate presentation means

1. HISTORY OF SLIDESHARE
TIMELINE OF EVENTS

2. OCTOBER 4,2006
• LAUNCHED ON OCTOBER 4,2006
• RASHMI SINHA WAS THE CEO AND C0-FOUNDER OF SLIDESHARE
• THE THEN CTO OF SLIDESHARE, JONATHAN BOUTELLE, CAME UP WITH THE
IDEA OF SLIDESHARE
• SLIDESHARE WAS INITIALLY MEANT FOR BUSINESSES TO SHARE SLIDES

3. ACCORDING TO TECHCRUNCH
NEWS, 2006
Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube
Michael Arrington@arrington?lang=en / 4:30 PM GMT+5:30•October 4, 2006
“SlideShare is a new service launching this morning that lets users upload
PowerPoint or Open Office presentation files and share them online through a You
Tube-like interface. Power Point documents (or any office documents) stored on the
web with a permanent URL are a valuable resource. No need to email the file to
recipients, or carry a copy around on a USB drive. The presentation can easily be
shared (and with permission controls, kept relatively secure).”

4. JULY 24,2007
• SLIDESHARE INTRODUCED SLIDECAST ON JULY 24, 2007
• SLIDECAST WAS A PODCAST LIKE FORMAT WITH WHICH USERS COULD UPLOAD
POWERPOINT, KEYNOTE AND PDF PRESENTATIONS AND SYNCHRONISE THEM
WITH MP3 AUDIO
• ACCORDING TO JONATHAN BOUTELLE “I can say without exaggeration that this
was the hardest technical and design task we’ve taken on so far with SlideShare.””

5. JULY 24TH, 2007, SLIDESHARE BLOG
“ For the last several months, we’ve been toiling away on a really ambitious project.
Our goal : the integration of web audio with slideshows.
Today we’re psyched to introduce a new multimedia format that we hope will
revolutionize the way knowledge is shared on the web.
We call it “SlideCasting” (SlideShows + podcasting). Slidecasting makes previously
static web slideshows true, compelling multimedia experiences.”

6. THE BLOG FURTHER STATES..
“Here’s what Slide Casting means. You can connect any mp3 on the web to your slideshow.
Once you do that, you can synchronize *each* slide to a particular section of the audio track.
This means that you can now use SlideShare to truly share a talk, instead of just the slides
from a talk.
And instead of having to listen to the entire mp3, listeners can use SlideShare to quickly
navigate to the section of the talk that they are interested in listening to.
We think this might make podcasting a lot more mainstream, by providing an easy way to
visually navigate them.”

7. IMAGE SOURCE: SlideShare blog

8. FEBRUARY 2011
• ON FEBRUARY 2011, SLIDESHARE ADDED A WEB CONFERENCING SYSTEM FEATURE
CALLED ZIPCAST
ZIPCAST = SLIDES+CHAT+VIDEO
It was a one click start web conferencing system that worked on any browser.

9. MAY 3,2012
• SLIDESHARE WAS ACQUIRED BY LINKEDIN FOR A REPORTED AMOUNT OF
$118.75 MILLION
• THE TRANSACTION CONSTITUTED OF APPROXIMATELY 45% CASH AND 55%
STOCK

10. ACCORDING TO TECHCRUNCH
NEWS, MAY 4, 2012
Leena Rao@LeenaRao / 1:44 AM GMT+5:30•May 4, 2012
“LinkedIn has just acquired professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million in cash and
stock. We’ve pasted the release below.
SlideShare is a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations.
SlideShare lets anyone share presentations and video and also serves as a social discovery platform for
users to find relevant content and connect with other members who share similar interests.
The company also has a huge enterprise following, and companies like IBM and others use the platform to
curate content from all of their employees and partners on a branded page.”

11. ACCORDING TO THE NEWS…..
“SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and according to comScore, in
March SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors.
SlideShare has raised $3 million in funding from Jonathan Abrams, Mark Cuban, Dave McClure, and
Venrock.
The acquisition makes a lot of sense from a product point of view. SlideShare recently deepened
its integration with LinkedIn, and the two companies have compared their relationship to Chocolate and
peanut butter for professionals. “

12. ACCORDING TO THE THEN LINKEDIN CEO,JEFF
WEINER
“It's a great outcome for the founders of SlideShare, Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle,
and Amit Ranjan. It's also a nice exit for Venrock, which was the institutional investor
in the company and had a 15X return.”

13. FEBRUARY 7, 2014
• SLIDESHARE ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD SHUT DOWN SLIDECAST ON APRIL
30,2014

14. AUGUST 11,2020
• SLIDESHARE WAS ACQUIRED FROM LINKEDIN BY SCRIBD INC.,
• SCRIBD TOOK OVER SLIDESHARE OPERATIONS FROM SEPTEMBER 2020

15. 1.^ "Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube". TechCrunch. 2006.
2.^ Jump up to:a b Yarow, Jay (2012-05-03). "LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million". Business Insider. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
3.^ Jump up to:a b Ha, Anthony (2020-08-11). "Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn". Tech Crunch.
4.^ "Domain: Slideshare.net". Click. Archived from the original on 2010-10-10.
5.^ "Most Influential Women in Web 2.0". FastCompany. Archived from the original on 2010-12-05.
6.^ "Jon @ SlideShare".
7.^ "The Rise Of SlideShare And How Corporate Presentations Became Entertainment". siliconbeat.com.
8.^ Seeborg, Kit. "SlideShare and LinkedIn sitting in a tree… | SlideShare Blog". Blog.slideshare.net. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
9.^ Ha, Anthony (11 August 2020). "Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
10.^ Jump up to:a b jon (Jonathan Boutelle) (2007-07-24). "Audio + Slides = SlideCasting!". SlideShare. Archived from the original on 2007-12-27. I can say without exaggeration that
this was the hardest technical and design task we’ve taken on so far with slideshare
11.^ Jump up to:a b Boutelle, Jonathan (2007-07-31). "SlideCasting: The SlideCast". Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. make web multimedia using only a ppt file and an mp3
12.^ Jump up to:a b Kaye, Doug (2007-07-31). "SlideCasting Lives!". Archived from the originalon 2007-10-11.
13.^ Sinha, Rashmi (2014-02-07). "Slidecasts to be Discontiuned". Archived from the original on 2014-03-05.
14.^ "Zipcast – changing the way the world conducts web meetings". SlideShare.
15.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare#cite_note-8
16.https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/03/linkedin-acquires-professional-content-sharing-platform-slideshare-for-119m/
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