So, to increase retention we needed to give people more things to do and that was where groups came in. [24] A month later, in November 2012, Goodreads had surpassed 12 million members, with the member base having doubled in one year. 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. 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. 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. Number two, well give you a way to connect with him on Twitter. Thats the hard part of being down here in Buenos Aires. 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.. Hes talking to fans and hes got big followings on all those services. Interviewee: Did he use Goodreads books blog? So lets take a look at it here. 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. Interviewee: Yeah, I think so. You Grok? I cant remember who I was thinking of but guys with serious cred. So then, they finally said Okay lets try something different, and the put up a what kind of dog are you test. Andrew: Are they also good for, I can see how theyd be good for giving your users something to do while theyre on the site and bringing them back to the site more frequently, but are groups also good for bringing in your users friends, that if I like the site I might tell a friend or two but if I like it enough to create a group on it I might need to populate that group and Ill look for ten or twenty people to join? Other victims of review bombing have pointed out that once a record for a book is created on Goodreads, even if the book has never been released to the public, is not in fact a "book" by Goodreads's definition, or will never be released to the public due to errors or delays in publishing, one-star ratings can still appear from accounts with no access to the title. Interviewee: I had an absolutely horrible design at first and then I had one of the Tickle designers, friend of mine, do the design and he was really good. And plus its more fun for me because I get to discover books, etc. Goodreads members can apply to become volunteer librarians after they have 50 books on their profile. Interviewee: He was. The New York Times noted that Goodreads, at the time of the acquisition, had a more reputable reviewing system than Amazon's. 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. And these guys just picked us up like crazy because it was essentially what they wanted to do only better. You know, for pretty much every ethnicity, every race, every sports activity, anything you can figure that you can create a community around there was a dating site for that. Hes on Facebook every day. Im beating it into peoples heads at the beginning of all my interviews. And by helping them I mean actively getting them into the press and spending money, marketing money, to promote the book. Scott Everett for NPR And its an iterative process. 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. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. So they finally got an idea that went big, it was just because it was something that was fun. Chandler continued running Goodreads until 2019. You allow them to connect with their readers. Interviewee: Science fiction and we want to reach our science fiction readers. His soon-to-be-wife Elizabeth joined the project, and. What to give them and what not to? [25], In March 2013, Amazon made an agreement to acquire Goodreads in the second quarter of 2013 for an undisclosed sum. Is that him on twitter? Is the audio coming in? If you havent heard of Otis Chandler its because he spends more time coding his site, Goodreads.com, than promoting himself. So its not keyword based like the other ones; its book genre based. As a young programmer in the mid-2000s, Otis Chandler watched as dozens of niche web sites began to take off. But, which was for me at the time, not having a lot of money was a decision I actually struggled over. Interviewee: Thousands of dollars. I actually found a dating site once for people who golf. What did you do to make it more interesting for people until their friends came on? Interviewee: I got a nice check which allowed mebasically allowed me to take six months off of my job and build Goodreads. [66], Critics of the Goodreads platform feel that Goodreads' dominant position, coupled with limited development by Amazon, has prevented better tools emerging for personalized book recommendations. [1] 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. 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. I dont know that I can point anything else out. [Break in audio] So what a lot of these authors are realizing Hey, Ive got to be out there on the internet collecting fans and gaining readership.. Otis Chandler is the founder of Goodreads.com. I'm an entrepreneur, a product person, a book lover, a surfer, and a geek. The idea came about when Otis Chandler was browsing through his friend's bookshelf. It depends on, again, on the book. [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. [Andrew Laughs] And I took a few CS classes two CS classes at standford. So it just always seemed like something I wanted to do. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Popular fantasy novelist Rin Chupeco has noted that authors from marginalized groups are often a target, and she also criticized the minimalist approach Goodreads takes to moderation, saying, "Goodreads only removes reviews that specifically target the author, but they do not do that for every book, eitherjust for the authors with big enough marketing and publicity teams to demand these removals." 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. Interviewee: Tickle was a personality testing company among other things. 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? Interviewee: Right, thats actually a big focus of ours right now, and has been for the last two years, I think. If you haven't heard of Otis Chandler it's because he spends more time coding his site, Goodreads.com, than promoting himself. [3][4] In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members[5] and 10,000,000 books had been added. And then I think in mid-January Mashable picked us up. Andrew: Yeah, its still true today though, right? Whatd you want to do when you graduated? Net Worth in 2022: $1 Million - $5 Million: Salary in . 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. Which were very passionate about. And I see Dave Yank, whos watching the slide has got a question. Alright, lets continue. Thank you for that recommendation. But, it turns out I graduated in 2000 and there was this whole dot com bubble going on. 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 I kind of already had it segregated that way at home. 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? [16], Before gaining much traction, Otis and Elizabeth Chandler grew the platform through their friends of friends where it reached 800 users. Andrew: Did he use it? I mean I was totally the kid that disassembled every mechanical piece in our house when I was young. 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. Or the most hardcore booklovers. 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. 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. Andrew: Is that really him whos going out on all those networks? Andrew: I mean you personally. Andrew: How can you decide which ideas you listen to? Personal Investments. It was all about learning how you build the product. Goodreads founder Otis Chandler said that "his management team would remain in place to guard the reviewing process" with the acquisition. If they were Jewish, they would go to JDate. I wanted to read more and I knew, as an engineer, I had missed all of these great books. See each portfolio image, in big. [inaudible] Id always kinda been a reader as a kid and I wanted to get back to that. So if you have a new book about science fiction. On his own, and then he went out an got funding. Whered you come up with the idea? And in thinking that way, I realized wow, books are kinda broken on the internet. And its become more on the author to market themselves. How can I get myself to be more excited about doing that? [10], Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler first met while studying at Stanford (Engineering and English respectively). You were studying mechanical engineering. You know, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music. How do you like it? 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. were creating profiles, and I said weve got to make these guys special. 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. 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. He wanted to integrate this scanning experience and to create a space where people could write reviews regarding the books that they read. They wanted more of a community. And my wife and I, I kind of view my wife as my co-founder. Interviewee: Probably not. [30] Goodreads founder Otis Chandler said that "his management team would remain in place to guard the reviewing process" with the acquisition. So am I coming up with these ideas, kind of, but really its our users who are coming up with it and saying Gee it would be really great if you did this, and I go Yeah, youre right, so its not that hard actually, you just have to listen. 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 know, if you wrote a book aboutI cant come up with a good example. Some users worried that their reading records would be lost, but Goodreads had a number of plans in place to ease the transition and ensure that no data was lost, even for titles that might be in danger of deletion because they were available only through Amazon, such as Kindle editions and self-published works on Amazon. A person whos an engineer who wants to develop, who wants to think about engineering problems, and not financial problems. But its not social and so coming from this [inaudible] testing we also built a social network right on the heels of Friendster. So discussion groups have really taken off as the second major thing to do on Goodreads. 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. Andrew: [Andrew Laughs] that actually I think is a good prep for a business. Andrew: Its working now. They can see the books that youve read and can read these great reviews. Any good social network does that well. All of which were successful. [63] After Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads, this policy was modified to include deletion of any review containing "an ad hominem attack or an off-topic comment". [9], By July 2019, the site had 90 million members. I think if you go back and look at my app. 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. 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. 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. If its not you focus on the part of the business that you know and get a rock star engineer. So, can you tell people what Goodreads is? Interviewee: Tickle had a very open policy. "Reading may be a solitary activity, but what you're reading and what you think of what you're reading are . You know, for pretty much every ethnicity, every race, every sports activity, anything you can figure that you can create a community around there was a dating site for that. Go buy a yacht? Fortunately the book straightens out into a well-researched and well-written history of LA, the LAT and the Chandler/Otis families. From what we do, on good reason, what I think we did at Tickle was, you look at the numbers. What were you able to do? Hundreds of dollars? So Tickle was viral because when you took a test it would say compare your result with your friends and it was kind of like an early social network in that there were friends except the only thing we did with them was when you took a test was show you Okay youre a Saint Bernard, and heres your friend Andrew whos a Golden Retriever, and heres your other friend Olivia whos a Pug or something like that. Interviewee: 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? "[4][20] After a user has rated 20 books on its five-star scale, the site will begin making recommendations. 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. Interviewee: Definitely. But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. Since the second I found the Hardy Boys all the way through when I got to high school. The rest of us get a nice check. Interviewee: Well sure, like I said, every time you had you made a friend on Tickle. Theres still people doing interesting things like Tesla, etc. 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. 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. 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. Interviewee: For one, I didnt feel like getting another job. Andrew: How much are the business side of things? Andrew: Can I find people locally to swap books with? Howd you come up with the idea? 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. 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. And I think it has. Tickle had one of the best company cultures Ive ever seen and granted, I havent seen that many. 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. [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. Interviewee: Heh, right. Andrew: Alright, but, so you were taking things apart even as a kid. Andrew: Now onto Dave [Yaniks] question. Haystack is where you are going to find the right web designer for your next project. Andrew: 2.7 million registered users I said in the beginning you got up to 650,000 on your own, no outside funding. Hes on twitter every day. Interviewee: Yeah, I had basic stock options. So he came up with the current look and feel of most of it. I love that, I love the clever thinking, the clever business thinking, behind Goodreads. 478 comments. Their latest investment was Series A - BookClub on Jun 15, 2021, when BookClub raised $20M. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. 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. He is from USA. hide caption. So then they started going to these niche sites. And then what wins goes first, and then you try another one. 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. Ning has built like what? Its still very young. To get me to take the mindset of yeah okay, I can take a year off and not go on salary and build something for my living room, that was essentially life-changing. 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. Sep 22, 2017. So, I mean, first of all it depends on the content of the book. Thank you Otis. 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. 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. Otis and Elizabeth Chandler are founders of Goodreads. One of the sites we built, that photo-sharing site I mentioned, was called ringo.com. I probably said I wanted to be a mechanical engineer and build cars someday. [51], Goodreads librarians improve book information on the website, including editing book and author information and adding cover images. We have estimated Otis Chandler's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. Its good. 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? "[34], In January 2016, Amazon announced that it would shut down Shelfari in favor of Goodreads, effective March 16, 2016. You have no friends who are discussing this right now, add some friends. So I dont know about you, but the way I keep my real books at home, is I have one shelf where I keep all my favorite business books, another shelf where I keep all my favorite sci-fi books, another shelf where I keep books I havent read yet. 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. Little bit of Goodreads trivia. Shes loving that line that you said, Ill teach you everything about business school in two days. I love it too Big Space. We allow you to actually create custom shelves. One thing I will be continuing is my podcast Books of Your Life with Elizabeth 1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes Alright how can people connect with you Otis? Andrew: Alright. Amazon bought Goodreads for $150 million in 2013, though founders Otis and Elizabeth stayed on for a few more years. 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. Do you have a group on Goodreads thats like that? No, I get those emails from you. Youll learn some of the viral techniques that Otis used to encourage his users to get their friends to join the site. I got that book for my Kindle, I love it. 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. Andrew: Yeah. And then theres Ning. How can they get people to read them? Interviewee: What else did we do? But I was really excited to learn this hot new language called Ruby on Rails. The Authors Guild called it a "truly devastating act of vertical integration" and that Amazon's "control of online bookselling approaches the insurmountable." How do you know what to pick? 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. 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. What was it like at first? Otis Chandler's income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. [6] This funding lasted Goodreads until 2009, when Goodreads received two million dollars from True Ventures. Maybe theres the business model. Yea, that was what got me into the web. Otis Chandler has made 2 investments. 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. You had match.com, you had americansingles.com, and eHarmony, and those are great. 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. 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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. We built a dating site right on the heels of match.com. But if the authors not into it, its not going to work. 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. Thanks Otis. 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. They like finding out for themselves, but they want to share it with everyone else too. We can also go to top, we can hit save to favorites, save it for later, and then keep clicking around. 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