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Assertion Supported
Elizabeth Chandler: Goodreads' audience was 75% female
“I think we had a lot of statistics on, on our users in terms of just education, gender the site's 75% women.”
Elizabeth Chandler Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 45:50 Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Assertion Supported
Otis Chandler: Goodreads was a top-100 US website when Amazon acquired it
“Yeah, but we owned most of a website that was one of the top hundred websites in the U.S. By traffic.”
Otis Chandler Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 56:05 Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Assertion Supported
Goodreads reached 100,000 registered users by 2007 without hiring any employees
“We got it up to a 100,000 users. I think registered users by the end of 2007 with no other employees, no other help. It just the two of us.”
Otis Chandler Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 38:19 Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Assertion Partly supported
Chandler: Shelfari had three employees and $1M seed from Amazon
“And then literally two weeks before we were going to launch, we discovered Shelfari, which had two co-founders, three employees, and a million dollars in seed from Amazon.”
Otis Chandler Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 33:57 Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Assertion Partly supported
Goodreads earned an 8% affiliate cut referring book buyers to Amazon
“So affiliate was, we get, you know, an eight percent cut of a book when we refer a customer to Amazon or Barnes and Noble or somewhere where they buy a book.”
Otis Chandler Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 49:09 Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
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