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missionstatement“…to help people find and share books they love...
[and] to improve the process of reading and learning
throughout the world.”
features
features
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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