We allow you to actually create custom shelves. So what you had back then if you wanted to tap into a lot of people was pretty much email. What can they do as authors? Interviewee: Thousands of dollars. But yes, I have seen the bloggers, I have seen the podcasters built up a big enough audience to then parley that into book sales. 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And what I noticed about dating was that you had big generic social networks. You know they had all different types and this thing went viral and this was right before I joined. And its become more on the author to market themselves. Interviewee: For one, I didnt feel like getting another job. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. This episode of How I Built This was produced by Casey Herman and edited by Neva Grant. I wanted that on the site. I actually found a dating site once for people who golf. One thing I will be continuing is my podcast Books of Your Life with Elizabeth 1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes If theres a company that were interested in we can quickly scroll through a bunch of their work and see whether we like them or not. Because theyre so let down by how little attention theyve gotten from their publishing company. I dont think it worked. [6] This funding lasted Goodreads until 2009, when Goodreads received two million dollars from True Ventures. Like everything else we do at Goodreads, KINDLR was a passion project from start to finish. There were mixed reactions from Goodreads users, at the time totaling 16 million members. But even talking about the people whove moved on, it was a really special culture. And these guys just picked us up like crazy because it was essentially what they wanted to do only better. Number three when I finally come back to the US you can come out to a Mixergy event to see him in person. So its gotten a lot harder. And wed already built it so every book has an author profile that lists the titles by that person. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Maybe its going to be some kind of mobile, social networking that we can all access on our iPhones. I love that, I love the clever thinking, the clever business thinking, behind Goodreads. Doing that process helps you think, okay well heres a feature that would be really cool and maybe its going to really increase user retention but its not going to help us at all with revenue or getting new traffic, so maybe its not as important as this other idea which is going to really make us money and increase retention, or this other idea which is going to get us new traffic and increase retention. Several members of the Goodreads team are single and dating in . And theres a lot ofpretty much everybodys building a social network these days. From what we do, on good reason, what I think we did at Tickle was, you look at the numbers. When he decided to launch his own site just for book lovers, a respected colleague told him there was "probably not a very big market there." Otis figured he might prove him wrong, and in 2007, launched Goodreads, a book catalog and review site that he coded from his LA apartment. Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon[1] that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. [46], The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button. So one other thing weve done is weve figured out, Hey, lets not just give these authors a platform to connect to their fans but lets actually let them get in front of the entire Goodreads audience. So we built a self-serve advertising product where you can sign up right now with a credit card and buy advertising for your book on Goodreads. Many of his most prized pieces had already been sold, including his 1894 Baldwin steam locomotive and his beloved Porsche 917 racecars. Then I read your review of it and you said, This guy can write. Youre a great reviewer by the way. And thats okay. And yet, a funny thing that he said about business school: He said Dont go to business school, and you go James, you went to business school. His books ten years ago they would just become best sellers by getting in the New York Times. Just making sure you think of all the factors I think is how youve got to do 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. Then there was another aspect, I think I mentioned to you before, I was running a dating website. And you just track as much as you can and then better it. If we scroll through it we can find lots of different portfolios. Social book cataloging website owned by Amazon, Learn how and when to remove this template message, published under a different name before coming out, "Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books", "Book lovers seething over Amazon acquisition of Goodreads", "Elizabeth Khuri Chandler Tells the Origin Story of Goodreads", "Need Advice on What to Read? Are we talking thousands of dollars? But if you wrote a book about a certain topic you should go to people whofind communities around that topic and market to them. In relation to Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, 58% of surveyed readers said they . Andrew: Its working now. There are settings available, as well, to allow Goodreads to post straight to a social networking account, which informs, e.g., Facebook friends, what one is reading or how one rated a book. So, everywhere on the site you go we dont show you like book reviews about Harry Potter, we show you heres what your friends thought of Harry Potter, and we show you heres what everybody else thought of Harry Potter. They just want to move on with their lives. And we can even narrow it by budget. 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. They wanted more of a community. Users were offered the ability to export data and migrate accounts. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Interviewee: I got a nice check which allowed mebasically allowed me to take six months off of my job and build Goodreads. Maybe after six years of an intense startup I was burned out. Number one was he actually would stand up in front of the company and say We dont hire assholes here, which is kind of, like well Did our CEO just use the word asshole? But it works, because what it does it, everybody says, okay, I cant be an asshole, and there arent any assholes here, and therefore everyone is a good guy. You can spend hours on there. 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. But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. 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. Otis Chandler is the co-founder and CEO of Goodreads.com. So this is fun, youre like wow, Ive got three friends and I can see their results I want to see the rest of my friends results let me go send them an email. Hes talking to fans and hes got big followings on all those services. Otis Chandler is the founder of Goodreads.com. [7] On March 28, 2013, Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads,[8] and by July 23, 2013, Goodreads announced their user base had grown to 20 million members. It just seemed like there was a lot more innovation going on. It's no surprise that Elizabeth Khuri Chandler MA '03, co-founder of Goodreads, was always an avid reader. Maybe we can afford a down payment on a house, in East Bay. Theyre so let down by how people arent paying attention to their book in the world. [33] As of April 2020, the site's guidelines still state that "reviews that are predominantly about an author's behavior and not about the book will be deleted. [15], Goodreads addressed what publishers call the "discoverability problem" by guiding consumers in the digital age to find books they might want to read. And maybe every couple months Id empty my Amazon shopping cart. Youll learn how he did it in this interview. Beyond that, publishers do not have budgets to help market their titles. If you haven't heard of Otis Chandler it's because he spends more time coding his site, Goodreads.com, than promoting himself. So remember I was a software engineer even though I didnt code as much in the last year and a half at Tickle. Go buy a yacht? Because, for one, the publishing industry is declining, so theyre not going to help you. Andrew: Now onto Dave [Yaniks] question. No car is worth that money but I guess it is rich mans way to fill a void in their life. Otis Chandler was born on November 23, 1927 in United States (78 years old). Interviewee: I think you can and theres certainly examples of guys whove done that. 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. Otis Chandler has made 2 investments. No, I get those emails from you. Along with a passion for building websites, hes also a voracious reader. I mean I was totally the kid that disassembled every mechanical piece in our house when I was young. Andrew: Before we get started, I want to introduce you to Haystack. [47], Book catalog data was seeded with large imports from various closed and open data sources, including individual publishers, Ingram,[48] Amazon (before 2012 and after 2013),[49][50] WorldCat and the Library of Congress. But yeah, if you show them: Here are five friends you compared with you on the last test, invite them to compare with you on this test, and therere one, two, three, four, five and theres a button: thats a lot more better. Im in Argentina can I find people who are here instead of having to get the book shipped from the US? So suddenly we were just being mentioned in all these blogs. Dave Yenk, again, Im reading everyones twitter names here, hes saying, Youd think that Goodreads would allow authors an easy way to get in front of their target niche, Im guessing is what he means. So we allowed the authors to kind of take over their author profile. Am I reading your history properly here? Maybe theres the business model. Andrew: Good example, by the way. He said, Ill teach you everything in two days. [inaudible] Id always kinda been a reader as a kid and I wanted to get back to that. 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. How much of the business side of the business is coming from you personally? Interviewee: Yeah, its looking good. 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. It depends on, again, on the book. I'm an entrepreneur, a product person, a book lover, a surfer, and a geek. Youll hear how working for Tickle.coms founder, James Currier, was better than going to business school. And my wife and I, I kind of view my wife as my co-founder. Is that him on twitter? Edit Personal Investments Section. Amazon bought Goodreads for $150 million in 2013, though founders Otis and Elizabeth stayed on for a few more years. What to give them and what not to? Andrew: Okay, and howd you figure out that Goodreads was going to be the vehicle? And, if youre on the site and you have no friends, then everywhere you go its saying you have no friends whove read this book, add some friends. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. Its all about (muffled) testing. Andrew you might be a golden retriever because youre kind of outgoing. You know, maybe in their job theyre a professor of something or a TV personality so that they know theyll be able to market it on their own. Andrew: Is that really him whos going out on all those networks? I mean it was all about creating content so I mean to make something viral you have to create something that is able to go viral right? Goodreads often refuses to remove quotes with "likes" from an author's profile, even if the quotes are false or invalid. I think the trick is going back to what you said in the beginning, its having the rock star engineers. Andrew: I got a lot of books from friends like that. 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. Can you talk about that? You know, if you wrote a book aboutI cant come up with a good example. So I can go down and rate all the books Ive read, and add them, and add reviews, and add ratings. Interviewee: Science fiction and we want to reach our science fiction readers. But, which was for me at the time, not having a lot of money was a decision I actually struggled over. I had never read Sherlock Holmes. Goodreads CEO & founder Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler Editor & Chief run a social reading site that offers book reviews and a place to discover new books to read, based in part by. Number two, well give you a way to connect with him on Twitter. I learned C, so I had a little bit of exposure to it, but not a lot. [13] Chandler and Khuri both grew up in California. And I did major in mechanical engineering and I liked it a lot. They can go to Goodreads.com, they can add you over there right? [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. And it turns out that most problems in mechanical engineering are pretty solved. And Goodreads allows you to keep all of the books youve ever read. How can they get their books out there? You know personally, I cant think of junior high without thinking of Danwich [sp] is when I first read that, or Lord of the Rings, which is when I first read that. Thats huge. Otis Chandler is the founder of Goodreads. Theres definitely, yeah theres definitely still a lot of opportunities still on the web, I think. 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? Shes loving that line that you said, Ill teach you everything about business school in two days. I love it too Big Space. Interviewee: Ah, right. 160,000 social networks or something like that? All of which were successful. "My mom taught me to read with flashcards when I was 2," Chandler says. I want to get into Goodreads and how you came up with the idea and how you built it up but lets go a little bit more back story. The band can have a profile and show off their music and their events. See each portfolio image, in big. Hes on twitter every day. [4][20] Later that year, Goodreads introduced an algorithm to suggest books to registered users and had over five million members. Or the most hardcore booklovers. Mrs. Andrew: [Andrew Laughs] that actually I think is a good prep for a business. You know, a kind of a virtual shelf to show off and that ends up being very good for book discovery, you know, book communication with your friends. Were you also building or creating little businesses as a kid? The first few pages are written in a glitzy, sophomoric style that is grating. And this is very similar to the Facebook self-serve product or the MySpace self-serve product. And it also depends on the author. Otis Chandler Founder and CEO in San Francisco Visit my company website. Interviewee: Probably not. As a young programmer in the mid-2000s, Otis Chandler watched as dozens of niche web sites began to take off. So Goodreads was built to do this, our position is not catalog your books, our position is see what your friends are reading, or get excited about reading through your friends. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. I had a drawer, not a drawer, several cabinets full of disassembled stuff. 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. In December 2020, Goodreads deactivated API keys more than 30 days old and said it would no longer be issuing new API keys. Andrew: Yeah. Scott Everett for NPR They dont want the interview; they dont want to be on anywhere. Nothing big. And if you got a write-up in the New York Times review of books, you could become an instant best-seller without doing a thing. Interviewee: Right, sure. Andrew: What else worked well? If its not you focus on the part of the business that you know and get a rock star engineer. Him on everywhere else? And I think a lot of companies dont realize that when you look at all the dumb domains out there. Otis figured he might prove him wrong, and in 2007, launched Goodreads, a book catalog and review site that he coded from his LA apartment. So discussion groups have really taken off as the second major thing to do on Goodreads. Andrew: What about the business behind it, or how do you, alright so I can understand its fun, but if theres not as much substance to it wheres the money coming from is I guess what Im asking. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. Its position was see your friends photos. 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. And what I noticed about dating was that you had big generic social networks. Interviewee: Oh, its, its, its amazing so far. Otis Chandler succeeded his father as the paper's publisher in 1960 and held that post for 20 years, though Norman Chandler remained an executive with the company until his death in 1974. Goodreads is pleased to announce the release of KINDLR, an exciting new dating app exclusively for Goodreads members. So weve essentially built a really good way for our users to talk to us everyday and half of what I do is I listen to what our users are saying about various features weve built, about various ideas for things we could build, about things that we have built that might be buggy, and then I go react to it. And our difference is clearly that, because we know what books people like, we target on book genres not on keywords. So that was the big lesson, serious is good but fun is viral. [75] As a result, Goodreads, an Amazon company, stripped the metadata from its record for the offending title, segregating The Turner Diaries to its "NOT A BOOK" author moniker (a category typically used to weed non-book items and plagiarized titles from the platform).[76]. I should say that. That gave his business enough traction to raise money from investors and grow it to over 2.6 million members. And Goodreads, before it got any outside funding, it was him, just building this thing up. I know the first time that we tried this interview it didnt work out so well. You know, there were guys creating things and then six months later a big company would come and buy it and that guy used to live down the hall from me and holy cow. . I cant remember who I was thinking of but guys with serious cred. Goodreads is basically a social network for book lovers. [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. So, how much is Otis Chandler worth at the age of 79 years old? Interviewee: Right, thats actually a big focus of ours right now, and has been for the last two years, I think. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. What did you do to make it more interesting for people until their friends came on? 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. You would add photos and there was a news feed that had all your friends photos and our whole company, an 80-person company used this every day and every day there was an email update with everyones photos from the weekend or the day before and it was really amazing because you really got to know everyone in the company much better than you did by just talking to them because you got to see where they were and then you had a basis for a conversation. 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. And it actually launched under Goodreadz.com with a z. Is it going to increase our user retention? This sparked public outrage and started a discussion on the relationship between authors and reviewers on Goodreads. Eventually, it gained attention through the media such as Mashable and other various blogs. When he decided to launch his own site just for book lovers, a respected colleague told him there was "probably not a very big market there." Otis figured he might prove him wrong, and in . If a user has written a work, the work can be linked on the author's profile page, which also includes an author's blog. Its kind of like what Tickle provided, you kind of get to look back at yourself and think like, man what was I like in junior high, what did I read? Andrew: Alright, and you talked about compelling content. Amazon.com, Inc. v. Barnesandnoble.com, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&oldid=1141346846, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from January 2022, Articles lacking reliable references from November 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 16:16. You'll learn how he did it in this interview. Fortunately the book straightens out into a well-researched and well-written history of LA, the LAT and the Chandler/Otis families. Youll notice that if you create a group on Goodreads the next page is invite your friends to your group on Goodreads and I wouldnt say those are insanely viral like that because youre not going to invite everybody, but it definitely helps. But I was really excited to learn this hot new language called Ruby on Rails. I was talking to Lea, why cant I think of her last name, the founder of Pounce, who told me it that it just feels like a superpower, you dont rely on anyone else you can just build it yourself, from start to finish. I say Okay theres a lot of users here that are really, really wanting this or that, and then I can prioritize what were going to build. "[22], As of 2012, membership was required to use but free. Otis Chandler is the most interesting person in the book, a driven, hollow man. Did you have shares of Tickle.com? US . So its kind of fun like that. So, everywhere on the site you go we dont show you like book reviews about Harry Potter, we show you heres what your friends thought of Harry Potter, and we show you heres what everybody else thought of Harry Potter. Goodreads has a presence on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networking sites. Andrew: Was it about the, the Was it about the businesses that were being built out of nothing that excited you? [36], On the Goodreads website, users can add books to their personal bookshelves, rate and review books, see what their friends and authors are reading, participate in discussion boards and groups on a variety of topics, and get suggestions for future reading choices based on their reviews of previously read books. So much depends on being able to get stuff done, and engineers are the only guys who can get stuff done, so yeah, they have a lot of power in todays internet company. Or do what Ning did and allow people to create small niches. I was a Saint Bernard because Im loyal. Andrew: How much are the business side of things? [42] By 2011, "seventeen thousand authors, including James Patterson and Margaret Atwood" used Goodreads to advertise.[4]. You know, it kind of seemed like it was the wild west where you could actually create real things from nothing. Are you a designer? Well, Ive got a guy whos done it. [41], The website facilitates reader interactions with authors through the interviews, giveaways, authors' blogs, and profile information. You know, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music. Thats the hard part of being down here in Buenos Aires. Otis adalah pemilik perusahaan penerbitan di Amerika Serikat yang juga menerbitkan Los Angeles Times. which is go out and get the book and try to learn it on your own. 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. Otis Chandler is a Celebrity Family Member, zodiac sign: Sagittarius. Whether you own them or not. You know, one of the first things I do when I go into any bodys house is I look at their bookshelves and see whats on there. Do you have a group on Goodreads thats like that? They can see the books that youve read and can read these great reviews. Goodreads publicly posted its review guidelines in August 2012 to address these issues. Interviewee: So we launched it, I think, in December of 2006. Otis Chandler estimated Net Worth, Biography, Age, Height, Dating, Relationship Records, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & many more details have been updated below.Let's check, How Rich is Otis Chandler in 2019-2020? One of the sites we built, that photo-sharing site I mentioned, was called ringo.com. I dont know. And I had moved to LAI had followed a girl to LA and so I didnt know a lot of people down there even though I grew up down there and I didnt want to get a job, like I said. For a lot of people, this is when things started to go downhill, and it's hard to argue against that. I dont know that I can point anything else out. Goodreads is the largest website on earth for all things books. Andrew: Definitely, alright, well end it there. Thank you Otis. 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 then what wins goes first, and then you try another one. Part 2 of our Exclusive Bibliostar.TV interview with Otis Chandler, the Founder & CEO of Goodreads.com from the floor of Book Expo America 2012. So if you took a 40 question test about your personality wed give you one page about what it meant for free and then wed give you 15 pages about deep psychological analysis coming from our PhD psychologist about what exactly it means for your personality and how you can improve your life, and we would actually sale those for between $4.99 to $9.99 depending on the test so there was a little bit of direct consumer revenue there. Their latest investment was Series A - BookClub on Jun 15, 2021, when BookClub raised $20M. So for some perspective, it used to be, say maybe 20 years ago, all you had to do as an author was write a book, hand it to your publisher, they would take it do their thing, youd get a check, youd go back to writing the next one. 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. 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