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Why We’re Building A New Product To Change The Way We Read Online
Talks about Media, News and Decentralization
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Otis Chandler
Founder of Goodreads. Working on a new article discovery app.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Otis Chandler is the founder of Goodreads and is currently working on developing a new article discovery app. His notable career highlights include founding Goodreads and investing in companies like BookClub and Looped at various stages of their growth.
Work Experience
Cofounder & CEO
2022 - Current
Smashing is a new app that transforms curious users into smarter readers. It’s now possible, thanks to AI, to scour the internet daily—across all articles, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts—and match the best, most relevant content to an individual user’s interests. Smashing conquers content overload by providing finely tuned recommendation feeds filled with truly worthwhile reads so that users can easily stay on top of, and share, what matters most to them. And Smashing AI Answers reimagines the traditional article reading experience by letting people instantly understand both sides of a story, or asking other AI prompts like "tear it down" or "make it funny".
Founder & CEO
2006 - 2019
Goodreads is the world's largest site for book readers and recommendations, with over 160 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.
Goodreads is a mobile and web app that allows its users to find, share, recommend, read, and review the books they like.
Raised $2,750,000.00 from TenOneTen Ventures.
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.
Monster.com is an online network that enables jobseekers to find jobs and employers to access jobseekers in India.
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