Otis Chandler
12 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2022 by Otis Chandler · across every show →
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Feb 7, 2022 positive
Social networks work best when built around shared 'social objects'
“Social objects, objects that people like to talk about that therefore can be the basis for sharing on a social network. Photos are super strong for that. Articles, cooking, like anything that people could kind of experience together or separately, but like hav…”
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Chandler: Tickle used 400 fun quizzes as traffic acquisition funnel
“I think we maybe had 400 fun tests and 80 serious tests by the end of when I left Tickle. So it was kind of a traffic acquisition funnel where, where you take the fun ones and then we try to see if you're interested in any of the serious ones.”
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Otis Chandler: Tinkering on a new project to fix algorithmic news feeds
“So I'm actually starting to tinker, for the last six months, I've been starting to tinker on a new project, which has been exciting. I don't have anything to announce, but it's in the space of trying to Address the problem that I think that the new, how people…”
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LA Times publisher grandfather advised Chandler to skip newspapers for the internet
“I think I was in high school, and I went and asked my grandfather, you know, do you think I should go into the family business? Because, you know, it's, it had been a business handed down generation to generation four times, and he said, nope, stay away. I rec…”
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Chandler capped his Goodreads salary at his highest-paid employee's rate
“I think for the first year of Goodreads, I had no salary. Then I had like maybe 30,000 a year. And then I just, once we had enough money where we were hiring some people, I just kept my salary at the top person's level. I never paid myself more than the top pe…”
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Chandler bought Goodreads.com for $5,000 after goodread.com was priced at $50,000
“And then I tried to go buy good read, singular, and it was like 50,000 dollars, and I was like, okay, forget that. And then I tried the plural, good reads, and it was not available. So I just bought goodreads with a z dot com for, you know, just to use while I…”