fionacampbell

missionstatement“…to help people find and share books they love...

[and] to improve the process of reading and learning

throughout the world.”

features

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financials

acquired for

$150 million

30+ million

members

$2.75 million

in investments

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

– Oscar Wilde

January 2007 Founded by Otis Chandler & Elizabeth Khuri

December 2007 Angel investors gift $750,000

November 2009 Received two million dollars from True Ventures

October 2010 Published an open API

February 2011 Acquired Discovereads

March 2013 Goodreads is acquired by Amazon

history“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

– Winston Churchill

what’shotMobile

900 million books & twenty billion data points

Authors on

Goodreads

secretsauce“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

-Mark Twain

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