Goodreads

Community for book lovers

Goodreads is a world’s largest site for book readers and recommendations. As of December 2011, Goodreads has more than 6,700,000 members who have added more than 230,000,000 books to their shelves. A home for casual readers and bona-fide...

Founded in 2007
Employees: 20
Homepage: http://www.goodreads.com
Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/blog
Total money raised: $2.8M

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Santa Monica
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Updated on May 13, 2013
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Otis Chandler Founder & CEO
Elizabeth Khuri Editor & Cofounder
Jonathan Greenblatt
Stan Chudnovsky Board Member
Mike Jones Angel Investor
John Hering Investor / Advisor
Adrian Danieli Advisor
Past

March, 2013

Goodreads was acquired by Amazon
for $150M

Amazon Moves Toward Kindle Social Network with Goodreads

Acquired by Amazon

TechCrunch

March, 2011

Goodreads acquired Discovereads

Goodreads Acquires Discovereads to Build Algorithmic Book Recommendations

free-press-release.com

December, 2009

Goodreads raised $2M in a Series A round from True Ventures and John Hering

Goodreads Ups Funding To $2M

November, 2007

Goodreads raised $750K in angel funding from James Currier, Michael Birch, Mike Jones, Stan Chudnovsky, and Christopher Michel

TechCrunch

January, 2007

Goodreads was founded on January, 2007