You know theyd spend half a work day going down memory lane, all the books I read in junior high, all the books I read in high school, and its a kind of fun process to go through actually. 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 discussion groups have really taken off as the second major thing to do on Goodreads. Interviewee: I mean thats the challenge. Mark (unclear) was here, and I asked him if hed recommend business school to other people and he said No, theres so many better ways to waste your money than that. Andrew: Do you think you couldve learned it if you didnt have an engineering background? Interviewee: For one, I didnt feel like getting another job. So shes really been into the product and we kind of view it as both of ours a little bit. Andrew you might be a golden retriever because youre kind of outgoing. They can go to Goodreads.com, they can add you over there right? 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. [39] Goodreads also offers quizzes and trivia, quotations, book lists, and free giveaways. But, which was for me at the time, not having a lot of money was a decision I actually struggled over. Interviewee: Oh, its, its, its amazing so far. [68], Authors who are aware of the site have noted problematic qualities of Goodreads affecting discoverability and search engine results, particularly the platform's inability to sort pseudonyms, and its refusal to allow authors to choose the primary author name that appears on book records. Of course, if there is someone we like we can click over, we can either save them to favorites or we can scroll to the bottom, get their email address, and contact them directly. Andrew: Did you I remember one thing that was an innovation for us, a real breakthrough, was storing the email addresses of our users friends if they allowed us to and that meant that the next time they picked a greeting card on our site, we can say, hey these are the five people who you messaged the last time, can we send it to them too?, and in addition, can you type in a few other people and well send it to them. Interviewee: I couldnt do this without plugging the fact that we just launched book swap. [74], In early 2021, Amazon removed all new and used copies of William Luther Pierce's white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries from sales on its platform and subsidiary platforms, citing concerns with the QAnon movement as the cause. You have no friends who are discussing this right now, add some friends. If they were Jewish, they would go to JDate. Interviewee: Well, its a big new feature for us, its the ability for members to list their books swappable and then swap with other members. View Otis Chandler's professional profile on LinkedIn. I was running a dating website [before Goodreads]. If its not you focus on the part of the business that you know and get a rock star engineer. My mom knew to give me a broken VCR rather than throw it out. Whatd you want to do when you graduated? Goodreads members can apply to become volunteer librarians after they have 50 books on their profile. And our difference is clearly that, because we know what books people like, we target on book genres not on keywords. Was it just watch me and youll learn, or was it more formal than that? Interviewee: Right. If the product is going to be viral it has to be more useful if there are friends then if there are not. So its kind of fun like that. You dont have to be a published author to do this. Hes talking to fans and hes got big followings on all those services. And I think a lot of companies dont realize that when you look at all the dumb domains out there. Interviewee: Yeah, its looking good. But yeah, I think you need to be doing everything and anything you can. His soon-to-be-wife Elizabeth joined the project, and. In relation to Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, 58% of surveyed readers said they . Thanks. Goodreads. Or if its you but youre not good at thinking about the business side I think engineers like myself, who can think about the business side and the engineering side, are kind of rare, and I dont know why that is. So having seen all this social networking going on I was like wow, reading would be so much more fun if it was a social network and I could see what my friends were reading and I could browse their bookshelves online. Andrew: Alright, and you talked about compelling content. [15], Goodreads addressed what publishers call the "discoverability problem" by guiding consumers in the digital age to find books they might want to read. Its position was see your friends photos. Like everything else we do at Goodreads, KINDLR was a passion project from start to finish. No car is worth that money but I guess it is rich mans way to fill a void in their life. Reply Quote. Goodreads has a presence on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networking sites. Is that him on twitter? The idea came about when Otis Chandler was browsing through his friend's bookshelf. [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. So I just sat in my living room and I decided to learn Ruby on Rails and code this idea. Andrew: Now onto Dave [Yaniks] question. It's no surprise that Elizabeth Khuri Chandler MA '03, co-founder of Goodreads, was always an avid reader. [24] A month later, in November 2012, Goodreads had surpassed 12 million members, with the member base having doubled in one year. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Donta lot of authors I think get depressed because their publisher tells them to go do signings around the nation and so they go to some Barnes & Noble store in Ohio somewhere and ten people show up to sign a book and they just get, Oh man, what am I doing in Ohio with ten people? Thats not going to move the needle anymore. [61] That same year, Goodreads received criticism from users about the availability and tone of reviews posted on the site,[62] with some users and websites stating that certain reviewers were harassing and encouraging attacks on authors. And it turns out that most problems in mechanical engineering are pretty solved. Scroll below and check more details information about Current Net worth as well as Monthly/Year Salary, Expense, Income Reports! Interviewee: Thousands of dollars. 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. Hey everyone, its Andrew Warner, founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambition upstart. And wed already built it so every book has an author profile that lists the titles by that person. 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. As a young programmer in the mid-2000s, Otis Chandler watched as dozens of niche web sites began to take off. I was a Saint Bernard because Im loyal. 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. Now its really easy to put down a hundred bucks and see, hey do I get any traction, and Go ahead. Some authors have suggested that Goodreads take a stricter approach to public review postings in the same manner that Amazon has done in the past, such as requiring a telephone number, a verified account by email address, and a real name before any account-holder can post public ratings or reviews. What was it like at first? Otis Chandler Founder and CEO in San Francisco Visit my company website. So that was my realization. You have no friends who are discussing this right now, add some friends. [1] Tens of thousands? [9], By July 2019, the site had 90 million members. See each portfolio image, in big. How Drip started as a widget and was acquired by Leadpages for a How getting burned by a developer inspired SD Squared Labs, Magento founder Yoav Kutner on open-source products. Hes on twitter every day. And Good Reads it was obvious. And thats when we went from five users a day to 100 users a day and then kept going up from there. So, you can kind of think of it as a virtual bookshelf. Its all about stats, right. So we can really decide if this is the right company for us. 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. 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. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. Maybe theres the business model. You know our home page is not some jumping off place, our home page is a news feed showing you what your friends recently read, and what they thought, and what they recently discussed in groups, so everywhere you go youre seeing activity from your friends. 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. The Authors Guild called it a "truly devastating act of vertical integration" and that Amazon's "control of online bookselling approaches the insurmountable." And we can even narrow it by budget. And plus its more fun for me because I get to discover books, etc. But, you guys also did certain things to make it even more viral. Andrew: [Andrew Laughs] that actually I think is a good prep for a business. [6] By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and thirty employees. I think the trick is going back to what you said in the beginning, its having the rock star engineers. You'll learn how he did it in this interview. Andrew: Can I find people locally to swap books with? I probably said I wanted to be a mechanical engineer and build cars someday. Otis Chandler is the most interesting person in the book, a driven, hollow man. 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. Regarding the 2013 Amazon acquisition of Goodreads, The New York Times said that: "Goodreads was a rival to Amazon as a place for discovering books" and that this deal "consolidates Amazon's power to determine which authors get exposure for their work". This sparked public outrage and started a discussion on the relationship between authors and reviewers on Goodreads. Maybe after six years of an intense startup I was burned out. [38], Goodreads users can read or listen to a preview of a book on the website using Kindle Cloud Reader and Audible. . 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. [42] By 2011, "seventeen thousand authors, including James Patterson and Margaret Atwood" used Goodreads to advertise.[4]. So realitys about making things really dead simple for the user. [69] According to Goodreads, transgender authors who published under a different name before coming out can contact the website directly to request exceptions, although there are no known or notable cases where trans authors have been given such choices. Andrew: Yeah. If you're a premium member, you can save your likes. Guys who are really in there, who were scrappy entrepreneurs. Interviewee: Thank you Andrew. But the remainder of his collection, some 50 cars and 40 . Interviewee: He was. Find out a little more about them. Interviewee: Groups work really well. Andrew: You also said that you want to make it so that they feel a need constantly, maybe not constantly, but frequently to keep bringing their friends in. If your name is Chris Anderson or Malcolm Gladwell theyre going to help you. Haystack is where you are going to find the right web designer for your next project. [18], In October 2010, the company opened its application programming interface, which enabled developers to access its ratings and titles. Save Share. Interviewee: Yeah, I mean if its you, do it. If were interested in them, in them even more we can click over and see their page. Blogger or WordPress, whatever. Did you code it all up yourself in the beginning? Otis Chandler was born on November 23, 1927 in United States (78 years old). LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Otis Chandler discover inside connections to recommended job . If you haven't heard of Otis Chandler it's because he spends more time coding his site, Goodreads.com, than promoting himself. Andrew: Before we get started, I want to introduce you to Haystack. 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. Or the most hardcore booklovers. Andrew: I got a lot of books from friends like that. 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. 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? That was huge did you guys do anything like that? I cant believe I struggled over it because now its a no-brainer. You didnt have to go about marketing it yourself. 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. Andrew: I remember one of the things we talked about, you spoke at a live Mixergy event about how to build virility into your product and you said that when a user registers youd ask them for their friends immediately, right? Thank you everyone for watching, Im looking forward to your comments and Im looking forward to talking to, actually Im looking forward to your comments lets leave it there. 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. Andrew: You know where they grow those kinds of engineers/entrepreneurs is Hacker News. [41], The website facilitates reader interactions with authors through the interviews, giveaways, authors' blogs, and profile information. 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. I dont think it worked. Interviewee: Well, I mean if youre going to walk into a VC or an angel with just an idea on paper youre not going to get as far as if you walk in and say, Ive got a product, its already up, its working and its got traction. Youre in a better bargaining position. 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. 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You can get real time feedback about something you write. I got that book for my Kindle, I love it. My process before Goodreads was that Id hear about a book somewhere and Id put it in my Amazon shopping cart. They finally have written a book, its going to be out there, people are going to know their name. 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. But its not social and so coming from this [inaudible] testing we also built a social network right on the heels of Friendster. The book misses some opportunities to delve deeper into . [10], Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler first met while studying at Stanford (Engineering and English respectively). You can self-publish through any of the self publishing sites like [LuLu] and come on and even if youre just writing a book you can do it do. But it got me to learn HTML and SQL which were important, cause it got me into the web. Thats intense. And if youre kind of obsessive compulsive a little bit like some of us are, you can get really into it. Otis Chandler believed this rating system would be superior to Amazon's, as Amazon's includes books a user has browsed or purchased as gifts when determining its recommendations. Otis Chandler is the co-founder and CEO of Goodreads.com. [40] Goodreads organizes offline opportunities as well, such as in-person book exchanges and "literary pub crawls". How can they get their books out there? Youll learn some of the viral techniques that Otis used to encourage his users to get their friends to join the site. Im beating it into peoples heads at the beginning of all my interviews. I dont know that I can point anything else out. 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? 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? Alright so it seems to me like where you really learned the business side of things was working at Tickle.com the company that you were with for about six years. Whether you own them or not. Andrew: And hes a huge author with a huge following and a great track record and hes still out there hustling, selling, connecting, building his audience every day. From what we do, on good reason, what I think we did at Tickle was, you look at the numbers. And this is kind of like what MySpace does for bands. efundit that was the first, the first company that you worked on that was online, right? 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. Its still very young. So we were really shocked when we were trying to do anything that was going on that wasnt working. Chandler continued running Goodreads until 2019. Interviewee: So, the founder, James [?] (from Wikipedia) .more Combine Editions Otis Chandler's books If they were Jewish, they would go to JDate. And then theres Ning. So thats important to understand, but its easier said then done. And I think it has. Can you talk about some of the things that you did over at, and for the transcribers its tickle.com T-I-C-K-L-E.com, can you talk about some of the viral techniques that you used there? 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 I see Dave Yank, whos watching the slide has got a question. Members can receive the regular newsletter featuring new books, suggestions, author interviews, and poetry. Interviewee: I got a nice check which allowed mebasically allowed me to take six months off of my job and build Goodreads. 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. And if you think about it, from an authors perspective now is more exciting than ever because now you can actually interact with your fans in a way you never could before. So I realized that a niche social network around reading, much like a social network around photos, would probably work. Or even the Google AdWords self-serve product in that its cost-per-click based. If youve got a guy on your side that can build youre farther ahead, and luckily I was that for yourself, but every time Im at a Mixergy event and I meet some guy whos like Ive got this great idea, but I need a good engineer and some money, what do you suggest I do? Big Space, I see your note. He wanted to integrate this scanning experience and to create a space where people could write reviews regarding the books that they read. So, can you tell people what Goodreads is? And in thinking that way, I realized wow, books are kinda broken on the internet. Maybe we can afford a down payment on a house, in East Bay. In December 2020, Goodreads deactivated API keys more than 30 days old and said it would no longer be issuing new API keys. Number two, well give you a way to connect with him on Twitter. What about groups? 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? You know, theres still challenges. Andrew: I mean you personally. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. [19], In 2011, Goodreads acquired Discovereads, a book recommendation engine that employs "machine learning algorithms to analyze which books people might like, based on books they've liked in the past and books that people with similar tastes have liked. 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. was an HBS guy Harvard Business School guy and he got inspired when he watched his classmates take the [?] 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. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and discussions. Interviewee: I think you can and theres certainly examples of guys whove done that. Users were offered the ability to export data and migrate accounts. All of which were successful. That has that kind of community? [71] Having false or invalid quotes removed can be a difficult process; problematically the quotes can be picked up by third-party websites like Pinterest and Instagram in the meantime, spreading invalid quotes attributed to the author even further, as Goodreads quotes bring a high amount of web traffic. 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. Even if you get published by Harper Collins or Manninghouse, great theyre going to put your book in the Barnes & Noble store but, theyre not going to market beyond that. [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. Tweet. [6] This funding lasted Goodreads until 2009, when Goodreads received two million dollars from True Ventures. If they were black, theyd go to a black dating site. Find out Otis Chandlernet worth 2020, salary 2020 detail bellow. I dont think it worked. Andrew: CS of course Computer Science. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Andrew: How are they doing that? Did you run a bunch of different quizzes, and then that ones that did you test a bunch of different quizzes and only run widely those that worked well, or did you have some other system to figure out what was compelling? Otis Chandler is a Celebrity Family Member, zodiac sign: Sagittarius. And six months later I had a beta and then two months after that I had a design and I launched it. And Goodreads, before it got any outside funding, it was him, just building this thing up. Andrew: Good example, by the way. Eventually, it gained attention through the media such as Mashable and other various blogs. 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