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. In this inte. Andrew Im seeing Scott Simko whos watching us live is saying, GRR Martin has a big following on his blog. I dont know GRR Martin. Youll hear how working for Tickle.coms founder, James Currier, was better than going to business school. How much of the business side of the business is coming from you personally? [67] Goodreads has also fallen under criticism from users who feel that the site is outdated and prone to frequent crashes and bugs, and that the recommendations are poor, frequently suggesting popular books at random rather than anything more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. 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. [51], Goodreads librarians improve book information on the website, including editing book and author information and adding cover images. [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, 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. Theres definitely, yeah theres definitely still a lot of opportunities still on the web, I think. Interviewee: Right, thats actually a big focus of ours right now, and has been for the last two years, I think. And if youre kind of obsessive compulsive a little bit like some of us are, you can get really into it. We built a photo-sharing site right on the heels of Flickr. Otis Chandler is the founder of Goodreads. But yeah, I think you need to be doing everything and anything you can. So then they started going to these niche sites. 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. 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. [59], In May 2013, as a result of Goodreads' acquisition by Amazon, Goodreads began using Amazon's data again.[60]. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. 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? You know, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music. were creating profiles, and I said weve got to make these guys special. Andrew: Was it about the, the Was it about the businesses that were being built out of nothing that excited you? So, from that perspective, absolutely, it was life-changing. Hes on Facebook every day. Andrew: Good example, by the way. Sign In http://www.twitter.com/otown https://www.goodreads.com/otis Otis's favorite books More Otis's Bookshelves read (577) LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Otis Chandler discover inside connections to recommended job . Andrew: How can you decide which ideas you listen to? 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. Since the second I found the Hardy Boys all the way through when I got to high school. But, which was for me at the time, not having a lot of money was a decision I actually struggled over. His soon-to-be-wife Elizabeth joined the project, and they slowly built a followingwithout an office, a business model, or a single employee. Okay, so thats where you came up with the idea. 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. Andrew: Funny how many people who went to business school would say the same thing. 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. Nobody ever knows what Im talking about when I say, Mixergy. Interviewee: I think he hired smart people, and like you said, smart people want to work with smart people, and that just kind of grows. The site provides default bookshelvesread, currently-reading, to-readand the opportunity to create customized shelves to categorize a user's books. Hes on twitter every day. Nothing big. 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. Interviewee: He was. Interviewee: I cant answer that as well because I cant take credit for doing that part. But thats the top two percent of authors that publishers are going to be helping them. [40] Goodreads organizes offline opportunities as well, such as in-person book exchanges and "literary pub crawls". Whatd you want to do when you graduated? Andrew: You know where they grow those kinds of engineers/entrepreneurs is Hacker News. [70] Goodreads. I actually interview authors all the time, and I can see day one, when I talk to them, before their book launches they are so freakin enthusiastic. I was trading basketball cards. His soon-to-be-wife Elizabeth joined the project, and. If your name is Stephanie [Myer] or Dan Brown, then theyre going to help you. Am to admitting some kind of ignorance here? Did you code it all up yourself in the beginning? [2], Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler. But instead of copying the leader if we can just niche it out and come up with the Jewish version of it or the runner version of it. There were mixed reactions from Goodreads users, at the time totaling 16 million members. The scion of the wealthy Chandler family who took over the Los Angeles Times and transformed it into a nationally respected publication. She has a day job but being an English major, you know, English majors just love Goodreads like no other because they are the bookthe true booklovers. You know, it kind of seemed like it was the wild west where you could actually create real things from nothing. Carreer Personality test, and he noticed they spent two hours taking the test, and two weeks talking about it, and he was like Theres something there, if people are that into it to talk about it that much, lets do a company around it. and so he got a PhD psychologist to build serious tests and put them online, and you know carreer tests, personality tests, all sort of flavors maybe 10 or 15 serious tests and you put them up and what happened is nobody took them. Do you think you couldve learned it so quickly? Number two, well give you a way to connect with him on Twitter. 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. Goodreads founder Otis Chandler said that "his management team would remain in place to guard the reviewing process" with the acquisition. So then, they finally said Okay lets try something different, and the put up a what kind of dog are you test. We built a dating site right on the heels of match.com. But I was really excited to learn this hot new language called Ruby on Rails. 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. Like everything else we do at Goodreads, KINDLR was a passion project from start to finish. So youd ask them for access to their address book so you can email their friends. And in early January I finally switched the name from the z to the s so we looked a little more official and worked out a lot of the initial bugs. Personal Investments. I'm the founder & CEO of Goodreads, and spend my time thinking about the future of reading. [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. Do you have some advice that you can give to other scrappy entrepreneurs who say, I like the way Otis did it, he didnt go out and look for funding first, he built his product first, I want to duplicate that approach.. Thats intense. My mom knew to give me a broken VCR rather than throw it out. So I realized that a niche social network around reading, much like a social network around photos, would probably work. [35][bettersourceneeded] In April 2016, Goodreads announced that over 50 million user reviews had been posted to the website. 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? If they were Jewish, they would go to JDate. Its still very young. "My mom taught me to read with flashcards when I was 2," Chandler says. Now he gets the same write-up and nothing happens. So if you have a new book about science fiction. [?] 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? which is go out and get the book and try to learn it on your own. So weve got that for authors. 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 if we want to follow up with them theres their email address and their website right on the bottom so we can connect directly. 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. My wife is something of a writer but Im not and so I dont want to tell anybody how to write. Komunitas Goodreads sebenarnya adalah komunitas baca internasional yang digagas Otis Chandler pada tahun 2006. 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. 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. Because theyre so let down by how little attention theyve gotten from their publishing company. Research help from Claire Murashima. Otis Chandler is the most interesting person in the book, a driven, hollow man. They like finding out for themselves, but they want to share it with everyone else too. [46], The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button. Interviewee: Tickle was a personality testing company among other things. [14], Goodreads was founded in 2006. US . Amazon.com, Inc. v. 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