I was trading basketball cards. The rest of us get a nice check. After university Chandler initially worked as a programmer in on-line businesses,[11] including dating sites,[12] and Khuri Chandler as a journalist. Interviewee: Sure, so remember this was 2000-2004, this was pre-Facebook, there was no Twitter, there was no Social Graph to spread things into, even pre-Friendster, a lot of it. But, you guys also did certain things to make it even more viral. Interviewee: Oh, its, its, its amazing so far. We have estimated Otis Chandler's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. Thank you for that recommendation. Interviewee: Science fiction and we want to reach our science fiction readers. Since the second I found the Hardy Boys all the way through when I got to high school. Can you ever get a big enough community to make it worthwhile? So if you have a new book about science fiction. You know, theres still challenges. 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". Interviewee: So we launched it, I think, in December of 2006. Andrew: Definitely, alright, well end it there. You know they had all different types and this thing went viral and this was right before I joined. Beyond that, publishers do not have budgets to help market their titles. 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. [38], Goodreads users can read or listen to a preview of a book on the website using Kindle Cloud Reader and Audible. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. So pretty much its up to the author. Andrew: Okay, great. Interviewee: No I didnt have to do that. Interviewee: First, Ive always been a reader. The first few pages are written in a glitzy, sophomoric style that is grating. So, from that perspective, absolutely, it was life-changing. [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. You know, it kind of seemed like it was the wild west where you could actually create real things from nothing. Thanks. Personal Investments. 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. Find out Otis Chandlernet worth 2020, salary 2020 detail bellow. [?] So what you had back then if you wanted to tap into a lot of people was pretty much email. 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. Or do what Ning did and allow people to create small niches. I cant believe I struggled over it because now its a no-brainer. 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.. Youll hear how working for Tickle.coms founder, James Currier, was better than going to business school. [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. Otis and Elizabeth Chandler are founders of Goodreads. I probably said I wanted to be a mechanical engineer and build cars someday. 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. You know, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music. [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. It depends on, again, on the book. That was huge did you guys do anything like that? And one of the requests that I keep getting from people who watch interviews with me talking to venture backed entrepreneurs or to venture capitalists, is, they want to hear from people who built a business from nothing. 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. Goodreads publicly posted its review guidelines in August 2012 to address these issues. Goodreads features a rating system of one to five stars, with the option of accompanying the rating with a written review. . 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. That gave his business enough traction to raise money from investors and grow it to over 2.6 million members. I cant imagine what the next thing is going to be. Ning has built like what? 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. MySpace everyday and hes just posting little stuff, little snippets, things hes thinking about. Hes talking to fans and hes got big followings on all those services. [3][4] In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members[5] and 10,000,000 books had been added. Talk to them a couple months later after the books been on the shelves for a while, they are so depressed they dont even want to talk about the book anymore. 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. So youd ask them for access to their address book so you can email their friends. Tens of thousands? But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. 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. Did you have shares of Tickle.com? Otis Chandler's income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. 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. Andrew: Sure. And wed already built it so every book has an author profile that lists the titles by that person. Andrew: We might need to start something like that. They can see the books that youve read and can read these great reviews. But I was really excited to learn this hot new language called Ruby on Rails. 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. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Mrs. Interviewee: I think it is. His soon-to-be-wife Elizabeth joined the project, and. 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. So thats important to understand, but its easier said then done. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Otis Chandler discover inside connections to recommended job . Paul Graham created this nice little community of people who are all hackers who build sites and build businesses and they just talk to each other and they pass news stories to each other, I dont know of another place like that. Otis Chandler is the most interesting person in the book, a driven, hollow man. If you want to narrow your search down a little bit further you can click on the city, and I used to live in Los Angeles, so well experiment by clicking on Los Angeles. In December 2007, the site received funding estimated at $750,000 from angel investors. 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: 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? 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. 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. Interviewee: Now, were at about 2.7 million registered users. I got that book for my Kindle, I love it. Big Space, I see your note. This episode of How I Built This was produced by Casey Herman and edited by Neva Grant. 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. 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. They wanted more of a community. Users can add each other as "Friends", enabling them to share reviews, posts, book recommendations, and messages. Its all about stats, right. 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. [26][27][28] Amazon had previously purchased the competitor Shelfari in 2008,[29] with the Goodreads purchase "stunning" the book industry. What about groups? 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. Because one thing we noticed early on was that wed be browsing around and some guys profile would say Hey, Im so-and-so the author of this and wed be like Whoa, theres really cool authors hanging on our site. And Goodreads allows you to keep all of the books youve ever read. Otis Chandler has made 2 investments. But without much fanfare -- or outside funding -- he built his community of booklovers to 650,000 members. Andrew: I got a lot of books from friends like that. They just want to move on with their lives. Got up to 600, let me see if I got the number right, 650,000 members. I had a drawer, not a drawer, several cabinets full of disassembled stuff. How can they get their books out there? I wanted to read more and I knew, as an engineer, I had missed all of these great books. [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. And by helping them I mean actively getting them into the press and spending money, marketing money, to promote the book. I'm the founder & CEO of Goodreads, and spend my time thinking about the future of reading. 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, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music. Like everything else we do at Goodreads, KINDLR was a passion project from start to finish. Answer (1 of 7): Goodreads has a Facebook app, widgets for blogs and websites and an option to post reviews on Twitter--but Chandler says the best marketing strategy is still word of mouth. Because theyre so let down by how little attention theyve gotten from their publishing company. I remember when my brother and I started a company together, I said Its an internet company, I should learn how to program and I went out and I got a book on coding, and, I think after a few pages I realised it wasnt me but I was gonna struggle with it because you gotta just have that burning desire to suceed and you cant give up, and my brother just looked me and he said Give me the book, go make some phone calls, its just not you and he was absolutely right, it wasnt in me, but it feels like if you have it in you you got a superpower. Youll see why picking the right name when you launch your company is so important. 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. And we can even narrow it by budget. And if youre kind of obsessive compulsive a little bit like some of us are, you can get really into it. One thing I will be continuing is my podcast Books of Your Life with Elizabeth 1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes And its become more on the author to market themselves. Interviewee: I mean thats the challenge. 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. So then, they finally said Okay lets try something different, and the put up a what kind of dog are you test. So, can you tell people what Goodreads is? 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. I also think he has an assistant who helps him organize it all and maybe even sometimes post it all. Yeah, you guys do. View Otis Chandler's professional profile on LinkedIn. [51], Goodreads librarians improve book information on the website, including editing book and author information and adding cover images. Andrew: And how did he pass on what he learnt at Tickle to you? He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. 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. What else did you do that was different and that helped spur on virility? So now you can create a custom shelf and put all the books you want into it. The New York Times noted that Goodreads, at the time of the acquisition, had a more reputable reviewing system than Amazon's. [31] And this is the way you build any product, right? Alright, lets go back to when you were at Stanford. Andrew: Im going to save that for Mixergy.com. 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.". What to give them and what not to? You can spend hours on there. I had never read Pride and Prejudice. Along with a passion for building websites, hes also a voracious reader. Goodreads has tried to address this, implementing rules such as only allowing reviewers to criticize a book itself, not author behaviour or political affiliations. And maybe every couple months Id empty my Amazon shopping cart. Thats actually one thing publishers look for in an author, is do they have a way to market it? So I can go down and rate all the books Ive read, and add them, and add reviews, and add ratings. 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. You know for us we had a problem where Goodreads was about cataloging your books so you come in and youd add a bunch of books and youd say what you thought of them, and maybe youd go kind of nuts. US . So you know this idea is kind of built into it, and everywhere you go on the site youre kind of getting this reminder that theres stuff happening here and your friends are talking about it, and that just kind of helps get the concept across that hey, I should add friends. In 2007, Otis Chandler developed a social network for bookworms because, rather than relying on media reviews and bestseller lists, he wanted to get reading recommendations from friends. Goodreads members can apply to become volunteer librarians after they have 50 books on their profile. 160,000 social networks or something like that? Andrew: Now onto Dave [Yaniks] question. Hes a guy who once hes done reading a book he just tosses it out I guess because he sent the book to me, the one that I was most interested in. [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. It did not give me much more than that. You dont have to be a published author to do this. Elizabeth Chandler @Elizabethkhuri 25 Apr 2019 After 13 years of growing Goodreads from an idea to a community with more than 90 million members, Otis and I are moving on our next chapter. And thats when we went from five users a day to 100 users a day and then kept going up from there. He wanted to integrate this scanning experience and to create a space where people could write reviews regarding the books that they read. Otis and Elizabeth Chandler are founders of Goodreads. Andrew: Alright. Theres still people doing interesting things like Tesla, etc. The scion of the wealthy Chandler family who took over the Los Angeles Times and transformed it into a nationally respected publication. [59], In May 2013, as a result of Goodreads' acquisition by Amazon, Goodreads began using Amazon's data again.[60]. If they were Christian, theyd go to ChristianSingles. [4][20] Later that year, Goodreads introduced an algorithm to suggest books to registered users and had over five million members. Interviewee: Thousands of dollars. They finally have written a book, its going to be out there, people are going to know their name. 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. [10], Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler first met while studying at Stanford (Engineering and English respectively). How do you know what to pick? Andrew: Before we get started, I want to introduce you to Haystack. "[4][20] After a user has rated 20 books on its five-star scale, the site will begin making recommendations. 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. 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. Are we talking thousands of dollars? Interviewee: Right. 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? [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. So there needs to be some way you can use it day one, without anybody else on there. The band can have a profile and show off their music and their events. And I think it has. Interviewee: Yeah, I mean if its you, do it. And two, I think Ive always kinda had the idea that I would start a company some day. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. If they were black, theyd go to a black dating site. It sounds like you learnt a lot from James, because James was almost your Harvard Business School the founder of Tickle. If you're a premium member, you can save your likes. Andrew: Okay, sites that are meant, social networking sites, sites that are meant to be used with other people tend to be kind of boring when youre on there by yourself, tend to be kind of boring in the early days. 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. The Authors Guild called it a "truly devastating act of vertical integration" and that Amazon's "control of online bookselling approaches the insurmountable." [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. And in thinking that way, I realized wow, books are kinda broken on the internet. So weve got that for authors. Interviewee: I think so. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. I was running a dating website [before Goodreads]. 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. Youll learn some of the viral techniques that Otis used to encourage his users to get their friends to join the site. [46], The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button. Thank you. Alright, lets continue. Its cataloguing your books. Goodreads has a presence on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networking sites. Without much fanfare or outside funding he built his community of booklovers to 650,000 members. 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. Little bit of Goodreads trivia. [37] Once users have added friends to their profile, they will see their friends' shelves and reviews and can comment on friends' pages. Which were very passionate about. 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 . Whereas mechanical engineering you werent going to be able to do as much on your own. See each portfolio image, in big. 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 Laughs] And I took a few CS classes two CS classes at standford. Andrew: I see. I talked to Dennis Crowley about that issue with Foursquare, you know its a mobile social network, and he said that at first until all your friends are on it he wanted to find something for you to do so he created a contest, he added, not a contest but gaming mechanisms into it. 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? So its gotten a lot harder. Is the audio coming in? So we can really decide if this is the right company for us. You'll learn how he did it in this interview. [inaudible] Id always kinda been a reader as a kid and I wanted to get back to that. So we kind of, I actually have a spreadsheet where Ive got a product and then I give a rating on each of those three criteria and then I come up with a total priority. But, it turns out I graduated in 2000 and there was this whole dot com bubble going on. Interviewee: Probably not. Find out a little more about them. And this is kind of like what MySpace does for bands. Andrew: How can you decide which ideas you listen to? Go buy a yacht? 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. Maybe theres the business model. 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. 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. My mom knew to give me a broken VCR rather than throw it out. How can I get myself to be more excited about doing that? Interviewee: Did he use Goodreads books blog? Amazon & Goodreads; Education. So we allowed the authors to kind of take over their author profile. 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? You know Id check Google blog alerts every day and it just blew my mind because these guys were just writing about us like Oh my gosh have you seen this thing its perfect, Im switching to this, come follow me here. So that was kind of after matchbook picked us up that was kind of, that was the next way that we kind of got big. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Maybe its going to be some kind of mobile, social networking that we can all access on our iPhones. He had a number of good things about him. Its good. So remember I was a software engineer even though I didnt code as much in the last year and a half at Tickle. I cant remember who I was thinking of but guys with serious cred. Andrew: Okay, and howd you figure out that Goodreads was going to be the vehicle? Thats the hard part of being down here in Buenos Aires. So they finally got an idea that went big, it was just because it was something that was fun. 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