Otis Chandler
Founder of Goodreads. Working on a new article discovery app.
Otis Chandler
Founder of Goodreads. Working on a new article discovery app.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2006 - 2019
Goodreads is the world's largest site for book readers and recommendations, with over 100 million members. My wife and I founded it in 2007. We raised an Angel round in 2007, a series A round of financing in 2009 from True Ventures, and were acquired by Amazon in 2013, joining the Kindle organization. Goodreads is a team of over 100 people and hiring, and working hard on inventing the future of reading.
Product Manager
2004 - 2006
Ran Tickle's dating site. Worked with CEO to spin out Tickle Matchmaking into it's own brand, with a new unique position: www.lovehappens.com. Built LoveHappens into a Comscore top 10 dating site in 2005-2006. Was responsible for all aspects of the business, and led a team of 8-10 people, including marketing, design, engineering, and customer service.
Team Development Leader
2002 - 2004
Lead a team of 2-3 engineers on various engineering projects for Tickle.com. Built and architected various pieces of Tickle Matchmaking and Tickle Connect (at one point the largest social network behind MySpace).
Software Engineer
2000 - 2002
Software Engineer for Tickle.com
Web Developer
1999 - 1999
Built a database and associated UI to access various Mechanical Engineering formulas and engineering properties.
Education
BS
1996 - 2000
Latest Articles
Why We’re Building A New Product To Change The Way We Read Online
Talks about Media, News and Decentralization