[64] Several news sources reported the announcement, noting Amazon's business reasons for the move: Where authors were threatening a mass account cancellation to protest the bullying, many of the reader users who commented on the announcement are now threatening the same thing. Heres the interview. If were interested in them, in them even more we can click over and see their page. Ten years after Goodreads was founded by Otis Chandler and his wife, Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, and four years after its acquisition by Amazon, the online social reading . Andrew: Did he use it? In this inte. (from Wikipedia) .more Combine Editions Otis Chandler's books So we both launched it, blasted out an email to all of our friends and we got it up toI dont know, I think after a month, from December to January, we got it up to about 800 people with our friends and friends of friends, just kind of organically grown. Interviewee: No, we have a lot of book geeks but. Otis Chandler. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. Linked in, I think. One thing I will be continuing is my podcast Books of Your Life with Elizabeth 1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes Net income in mil. Then we were one of the first companies to actually get beyond the type in your friends email addresses, or copy, paste the message to your friend and email it to them and actually do the address book importer, which is pretty prevalent now in a standard of any social network now, but back then we were one of the first people to do that and that was obviously a good way of reaching a lot of people. Andrew: I got a lot of books from friends like that. We have estimated Otis Chandler's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. If they were black, theyd go to a black dating site. [16], Before gaining much traction, Otis and Elizabeth Chandler grew the platform through their friends of friends where it reached 800 users. So what we had is we animated on this fun, plus serious model and I think at the end we had maybe 600 fun tests and maybe 150 serious tests, and the serious tests we eventually figured out we could sell a result to these. You can spend hours on there. And it turns out that most problems in mechanical engineering are pretty solved. If its not you focus on the part of the business that you know and get a rock star engineer. But even talking about the people whove moved on, it was a really special culture. Please enter your email address to continue, Create products people want (By building in increments), LeadPages founder on why you should be embarrassed by your first launch, How a list nerd grew Ranker.com to 27,000,000 monthly visitors. After university Chandler initially worked as a programmer in on-line businesses,[11] including dating sites,[12] and Khuri Chandler as a journalist. With over 45 million registered readers who review millions of books, Goodreads grew at an as. Goodreads founder Otis Chandler said that "his management team would remain in place to guard the reviewing process" with the acquisition. [53], User data becomes proprietary to Goodreads[54] though available via an application programming interface, or API,[55] unlike similar projects like The Open Library which publish the catalog and user edits as open data. And then what wins goes first, and then you try another one. I cant believe I struggled over it because now its a no-brainer. [31], Noting that some authors had been "too aggressive in their self-promotion" (as Goodreads admitted in an email) and that some readers had responded with aggression,[32] in September 2013, Goodreads announced it would delete, without warning, reviews that threatened authors or mentioned authors' behavior. You Grok? Otis Chandler is a member of Family Member Otis Chandler Net worth: 5 Million Some Otis Chandler images About His books ten years ago they would just become best sellers by getting in the New York Times. were creating profiles, and I said weve got to make these guys special. I should say that. 478 comments. I mean I was totally the kid that disassembled every mechanical piece in our house when I was young. This episode of How I Built This was produced by Casey Herman and edited by Neva Grant. Interviewee: I think it is. It actually started as EMO.com which is when I joined it in 2,000 and I thought it was pretty dumb when I joined it actually to be honest but luckily it was started by some really smart people who knew what they were doing, and that was lesson number 1: People who are smart and determined to succeed, WILL succeed, even with what seems like a dumb idea, and you know, the Tickle guys were smart and determined and thats what they did, so they took an idea to do a testing company online from an idea to a funded startup to selling it to Monster.com in 2004 for 100,000,000 bucks. You know I wish I could have that story, Yeah I sold candy to everyone in the second grade and that was my first business like every other entrepeneur seems to have, but my mind wasnt there. [70] Andrew: I see. Do you have a group on Goodreads thats like that? Tweet. Thank you Otis. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Otis Chandler discover inside connections to recommended job . Andrew: Its all about research online. Better even than many of the business classes that I took at NYU. Profile Name: Otis Chandler Age: 31 Company: Goodreads.com Title: CEO and president First job: Ranch hand in Montana Bookselling in the future will be "all about using the Internet and free e . [40] Goodreads organizes offline opportunities as well, such as in-person book exchanges and "literary pub crawls". And you look at how many people come in and how many invites get sent and how many people can make it to the end. Andrew: Thats kind of interesting that the next big trend to come out I wonder if instead of trying to copy the big company, we can niche it out and focus on a specific area that we might have a morea bigger chance of succeeding. So, if the product is going to be viral it has to be useful, more useful if there are friends then if there are not. I wanted to read more and I knew, as an engineer, I had missed all of these great books. If your name is Stephanie [Myer] or Dan Brown, then theyre going to help you. But, after you go through this process of adding all the books you want to add at that time theres not much left for you to do. [9], By July 2019, the site had 90 million members. Andrew: Alright, so one of the reasons that it went viral is because people love talking about their IQs or the results of their tests, what kind of dog they were. The collection of former Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler evolved over the years along with the interests of the man, from classics and motorcycles to muscle cars and racing Porsches. He is from USA. But the point is, you went from big generic to lots of little niche ones and the niche ones worked because they were tight around a community and the interests that people liked. I love that, I love the clever thinking, the clever business thinking, behind Goodreads. Andrew: Alright, and you talked about compelling content. Otis and Elizabeth Chandler are founders of Goodreads. Interviewee: Its a very smart point, because if something is boring, if you sign up for a service and theres nothing for you to do until someone signs up, youre just going to leave, right? And its an iterative process. Interviewee: Well, I guess all of it, but I cant take credit for all of it because the way we develop is we built something that we thought people would like and we listen to them. He says he loves Good Reads, he loves the community on there, and he wonders what youre going to do to get authors more engaged. Which were very passionate about. Luckily the guy who had Goodreads.com with an s sold it to me otherwise Im not sure if it would have taken off like it did. If they were black, theyd go to a black dating site. Andrew: Okay, great. You were studying mechanical engineering. Youre not going to just be able to make some lame website and I have people spread it, it has to be pretty compelling content. If they were Christian, theyd go to ChristianSingles. Interviewee: I did. To get me to take the mindset of yeah okay, I can take a year off and not go on salary and build something for my living room, that was essentially life-changing. Interviewee: I had an absolutely horrible design at first and then I had one of the Tickle designers, friend of mine, do the design and he was really good. Interviewee: For one, I didnt feel like getting another job. So now people, I mean our groups are amazing now, we have book clubs that have thousands of people in them that read two books a month. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Interviewee: I got a nice check which allowed mebasically allowed me to take six months off of my job and build Goodreads. And Goodreads, before it got any outside funding, it was him, just building this thing up. But thats the top two percent of authors that publishers are going to be helping them. You know, James had another bit of wisdom for me which was a good domain will give you a 30% extra chance of success. And by helping them I mean actively getting them into the press and spending money, marketing money, to promote the book. If you haven't heard of Otis Chandler it's because he spends more time coding his site, Goodreads.com, than promoting himself. And then theres Ning. Hundreds of dollars? Thats the hard part of being down here in Buenos Aires. It depends on, again, on the book. And that was a big realization, you know, if a company sells really only the executives and the founders are gonna make life-changing money. Haystack is where you are going to find the right web designer for your next project. Blogger or WordPress, whatever. Interviewee: Now, were at about 2.7 million registered users. Andrew: Alright, but, so you were taking things apart even as a kid. For a lot of people, this is when things started to go downhill, and it's hard to argue against that. Do you think you couldve learned it so quickly? Andrew: The book Think and grow rich, I think one of its points there is to work with good people, because their systems, their was of working is going to rub off on you. Interviewee: Did he use Goodreads books blog? Okay, so thats where you came up with the idea. It had a news feed before Facebook did. [inaudible] Id always kinda been a reader as a kid and I wanted to get back to that. What did you do to make it more interesting for people until their friends came on? [72], Both authors and readers have noted an increase in political banter, trolling, cancel culture and cyberbullying afflicting the website. He had a number of good things about him. And then we kind of got into this blog phenomenon. Are we talking thousands of dollars? You know, theres still challenges. Tens of thousands? What were you able to do? Nobody ever knows what Im talking about when I say, Mixergy. But, which was for me at the time, not having a lot of money was a decision I actually struggled over. Its still very young. Very nice looking car but I like the one that is in the Otis Chandler collection.It is also one of the 1 converts built. "[22], As of 2012, membership was required to use but free. [Andrew Laughs] And I took a few CS classes two CS classes at standford. [23] In October 2012, Goodreads announced it had grown to 11 million members with 395 million books cataloged and over 20,000 book clubs created by its users. So giving users the ability to do that means you can use it without your friends being on there. Its position was see your friends photos. And I think it has. "[4][20] After a user has rated 20 books on its five-star scale, the site will begin making recommendations. Otis Chandler - San Francisco, CA (1,354 books) 585 ratings (4.19 avg) 385 reviews Goodreads Founder more photos (7) #32 most followed #3 top librarians Otis Chandler Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Otis. So we can really decide if this is the right company for us. So now you have the opportunity to become a better writer by putting yourself out there more and more often and seeing what people like and dont like. Goodreads has a presence on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networking sites. The site provides default bookshelvesread, currently-reading, to-readand the opportunity to create customized shelves to categorize a user's books. Because Goodreads allows reviews for any book record as soon as it first appears on Goodreads, and cannot verify that any account-holder in fact owns the book they claim to have read, there is no clear way to police this. And plus its more fun for me because I get to discover books, etc. The easier you make things for users, the better; so if you tell them: Youve got to do a bunch of work to find your friends and send these test results to you, theyre not going to do as much. Goodreads has tried to address this, implementing rules such as only allowing reviewers to criticize a book itself, not author behaviour or political affiliations. Last week, O'Reilly GM and publisher Joe Wikert reviewed Goodreads' CEO Otis Chandler's TOC session, in which Chandler presented the results of a recent Goodreads readers survey.One of the interesting pieces from the survey covered the effectiveness of Goodreads reviews. Chandler family $4.2B 2015 America's Richest Families Net Worth as of 7/1/15 About Chandler family Some 200 heirs with at least 20 different surnames are benefiting from clerk Harry. [2], Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler. Thats actually one thing publishers look for in an author, is do they have a way to market it? What about groups? So suddenly we were just being mentioned in all these blogs. Users were offered the ability to export data and migrate accounts. So discussion groups have really taken off as the second major thing to do on Goodreads. You know you basically take fifteen questions and you learn about yourself a little bit and at the end you get typed into one type. If they were Jewish, they would go to JDate. Additional support from Jeff Rogers, J.C. Howard, Julia Carney, Elaine Coates, Farrah Safari, Liz Metzger, Harrison Vijay Tsui and Katherine Sypher, and Margaret Cirino. Thank you everyone. But it got me to learn HTML and SQL which were important, cause it got me into the web. The band can have a profile and show off their music and their events. How do you like it? If I know what my friend is reading, or has read, that gives me a basis for conversation around that. [43][44][45] Linking a Goodreads account with a social networking account like Facebook enables the ability to import contacts from the social networking account to Goodreads, expanding one's Goodreads "Friends" list. They wanted more of a community. And both my grandfathers own their own companies and are successful. Many of his most prized pieces had already been sold, including his 1894 Baldwin steam locomotive and his beloved Porsche 917 racecars. The rest of us get a nice check. Without much fanfare or outside funding he built his community of booklovers to 650,000 members. Interviewee: Oh, its, its, its amazing so far. But I think, you know, my sense is from talking to authors that thats kind of becoming more of what they have to do. All of which were successful. "[34], In January 2016, Amazon announced that it would shut down Shelfari in favor of Goodreads, effective March 16, 2016. They were very open with all number and stats and where the business was going, and they really believe in being a teaching company, which I also believe in, from them. Interviewee: I cant answer that as well because I cant take credit for doing that part. Nothing big. Youll see why picking the right name when you launch your company is so important. And theres a lot ofpretty much everybodys building a social network these days. Ive done several interviews here with entrepreneurs whose companies have failed and what they say often is I just gave everybody what they wanted, I was told I was supposed to go into the community, listen to the feature request, the product request that they had, and give them what they want, but then I ended up doing everything and my business lost its focus and I was too distracted. Whered you come up with the idea? [51], Goodreads librarians improve book information on the website, including editing book and author information and adding cover images. If you're a premium member, you can save your likes. Andrew: Can I find people locally to swap books with? Since the second I found the Hardy Boys all the way through when I got to high school. Andrew: You know where they grow those kinds of engineers/entrepreneurs is Hacker News. We built a dating site right on the heels of match.com. And my wife and I, I kind of view my wife as my co-founder. So if an author wants to think of himself as an entrepreneur and get a following before he gets published, how do they do it? Otis Chandler was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. What else did you do that was different and that helped spur on virility? Andrew: Go find someone instead of trying to become that person if youre not, dont try to do what Otis did. Which means a lot of things, but most people get a lot of value out of, from keeping track of what theyve read. In 2012, after a receiving a poor review on her novel The Selection, author Kiera Cass encouraged her Twitter followers to "knock [the review] off" the front page of Goodreads' section on the book. That gave his business enough traction to raise money from investors and grow it to over 2.6 million members. [67] Goodreads has also fallen under criticism from users who feel that the site is outdated and prone to frequent crashes and bugs, and that the recommendations are poor, frequently suggesting popular books at random rather than anything more personalized. So I spent the summer learning HTML, and mySQL and plugging in a lot of boring mathematical formulas and chemical property charts into a website. So am I coming up with these ideas, kind of, but really its our users who are coming up with it and saying Gee it would be really great if you did this, and I go Yeah, youre right, so its not that hard actually, you just have to listen. But So, the large degree most of the jobs I found were, you know, building printers for HP or just stuff that wasnt getting as exciting as hearing about all the stuff going on it the dot com world. Interviewee: He was. So, I mean, first of all it depends on the content of the book. So Tickle was viral because when you took a test it would say compare your result with your friends and it was kind of like an early social network in that there were friends except the only thing we did with them was when you took a test was show you Okay youre a Saint Bernard, and heres your friend Andrew whos a Golden Retriever, and heres your other friend Olivia whos a Pug or something like that. Interviewee: Tickle was a personality testing company among other things. So I realized that a niche social network around reading, much like a social network around photos, would probably work. But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. Now its really easy to put down a hundred bucks and see, hey do I get any traction, and Go ahead. Can you talk about that? [46], The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button. [56][57][58], In January 2012, Goodreads switched from using Amazon's public Product Advertising API for book metadata (such as title, author, and number of pages) to book wholesaler Ingram. Sign In http://www.twitter.com/otown https://www.goodreads.com/otis Otis's favorite books More Otis's Bookshelves read (577) It has also been criticized that Goodreads allows both users and authors to post quotes attributed to an author without verification of any sort; removal of such quotes is left largely in the hands of volunteer "librarians", as authors have little to no individual control over quotes posted to their own profiles. What can they do as authors? And it actually launched under Goodreadz.com with a z. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Thanks. So, you can kind of think of it as a virtual bookshelf. So that was the big lesson, serious is good but fun is viral. Andrew: And I know from looking at Goodreads, from looking at your profile on Goodreads, youre reading Think and Grow Rich an inspiration for me. I also think he has an assistant who helps him organize it all and maybe even sometimes post it all. Dorothy Buffum Chandler died last summer and her son Otis Chandler, who at one time ran both Times Mirror Co. and the flagship Los Angeles Times newspaper, stepped down from the board after 36 years. Is it going to increase our user retention? But without much fanfare -- or outside funding -- he built his community of booklovers to 650,000 members. They finally have written a book, its going to be out there, people are going to know their name. [73] A form of extortion scam known as "review bombing", in which trolls post numerous 1-star ratings and poor reviews on an author's new book from different sock-puppet accounts to make the book look bad (sometimes demanding money or that the author quit Goodreads usage to stop the bad reviews from coming in), has also been widely reported as a growing form of bullying on Goodreads, targeting both traditional and self-published authors. A lot of engineers just like thinking about code and I can understand that, so if youre an engineer who likes just thinking about code maybe you need your left hand man who can go think about business, like you and your brother. And this is very similar to the Facebook self-serve product or the MySpace self-serve product. Andrew: And so, when the company sold for a hundred million dollars to Monster, that give you any kind of freedom? "My mom taught me to read with flashcards when I was 2," Chandler says. And Goodreads allows you to keep all of the books youve ever read. And you just track as much as you can and then better it. But most of them are guys who published a book or self-published a book and theyre trying to figure out How am I going to market my book to people? And this is the biggest problem that authors are facing right now. Alright how can people connect with you Otis? And maybe every couple months Id empty my Amazon shopping cart. Andrew: Funny how many people who went to business school would say the same thing. I should have gone for Mix Energy or Mix Synergy. Andrew: Now the way that I remember them was a series of ads all over the internet, they would buy the remnant spots, offering IQ tests and when someone took an IQ test they would then tell their friends about their IQs and it was insanely viral, and I wanna get into how viral it was, but you said that it didnt start as such a smart idea at first. Find out Otis Chandlernet worth 2020, salary 2020 detail bellow. And while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several e-book retailers incorporate the Goodreads' API into their sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community know to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real-world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews. His soon-to-be-wife Elizabeth joined the project, and they slowly built a followingwithout an office, a business model, or a single employee. But Ive always been an engineering minded kid. Edit Personal Investments Section. Before we continue with the story, Otis can you tell the people what Goodreads is, if theyve never been on it, if theyre not one of the, one of the millions of people on the site? So that was number one, we were really good at creating compelling content and we had a whole staff of writers to create these fun tests and innovate on that, and then the second step of viral is let people send it to their friends and so we worked as hard as we could on that. Andrew: Alright, Ive got to tell you too I looked at one of your latest reads, the book by Tessla, and I said well, Tessla wrote a book, how interesting could it be. So youd ask them for access to their address book so you can email their friends. Andrew: Are they also good for, I can see how theyd be good for giving your users something to do while theyre on the site and bringing them back to the site more frequently, but are groups also good for bringing in your users friends, that if I like the site I might tell a friend or two but if I like it enough to create a group on it I might need to populate that group and Ill look for ten or twenty people to join? Goodreads is pleased to announce the release of KINDLR, an exciting new dating app exclusively for Goodreads members. Goodreads is a "social cataloging" website founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer, and entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Khuri. Now he gets the same write-up and nothing happens. Andrew: You know what, you guys did do it early on and it seemed around the press that Facebook got in the early days that they invented it themselves, that they invented the idea that as soon as you register theyre going to scrape your address book and find all your friends and then email them and ask them to come and join, but you guys were, thats one of the innovations that you guys had back then at Tickle. My process before Goodreads was that Id hear about a book somewhere and Id put it in my Amazon shopping cart. I cant remember who I was thinking of but guys with serious cred. The New York Times noted that Goodreads, at the time of the acquisition, had a more reputable reviewing system than Amazon's. That they should see that the place doesnt feel as good, doesnt feel as comfortable without as many friends on it. Goodreads felt Amazon's requirements for using its API were too restrictive, and the combination of Ingram, the Library of Congress, and other sources would be more flexible. So I wanted to provide that experience around reading. A person whos an engineer who wants to develop, who wants to think about engineering problems, and not financial problems. He essentially mentored me into becoming more than an engineer, becoming a product manager, and by the end of Tickle, I was not just a coder, I was managing a team of ten people including marketing, design, business development and engineering, and et cetera. Whether you own them or not. [3][4] In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members[5] and 10,000,000 books had been added. 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