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Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler Feb 7, 2022 · 35 mentions

• ▶ 0:52 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Otis and Elizabeth Chandler launched a social network out of their LA apartment, turned it into the hugely popular book review website Goodreads, and how they sold it to the biggest bookseller in the… 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 28:15 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Otis launched his new website with no investment, no employees, and no business model, and why he decided to add an S to the end of the word Goodread.
• ▶ 29:29 Guy Raz And initially it wasn't called Goodreads, right? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 37:20 Otis Chandler And when they found Goodreads, they started adopting us in droves because we, we were better at that than the blogging platforms.
• ▶ 40:27 Otis Chandler Uh, and, and I think by the end of Goodreads, we had maybe 40,000 of them were making tens of thousands of edits a day, which is why Goodreads has one of the best catalogs out there. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:03 Otis Chandler Who was now, who I now had agreed to be an advisor to Goodreads. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:21 Otis Chandler I think for the first year of Goodreads, I had no salary.
• ▶ 50:16 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, why Otis and Elizabeth wound up not needing that VC money, and why they decided to sell Goodreads to an 800 pound gorilla.
• ▶ 50:51 Guy Raz So it's 2013, about six years after launch, and Goodreads now has all the things it did not have in the beginning. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:43 Guy Raz Um, Amazon announced that, that it would acquire Goodreads in March of 2013, but, uh, presumably, I mean, those conversations started maybe in early 2013, and I have to assume you have to be 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:01:04 Guy Raz I mean, were you able to, did Goodreads feel different after that? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:03:46 Otis Chandler You know, you, you, you don't want to see my calendar from when I was at the end of running Goodreads, and I had every square inch of the calendar was
• ▶ 1:05:59 Guy Raz How, how much of, of what your success and what happened with Goodreads do you attribute to how hard you worked and your, your intelligence and the decisions you made, and how much do you think has to do with just being lucky? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:07:33 Guy Raz That's Otis and Elizabeth Chandler, co-founders of Goodreads. 4 times in the scene