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Otis Chandler is a Managing Partner at Founder Collective based in San Francisco, California. He is best known for founding Goodreads in 2006, scaling the social reading platform to over 100 million users before its acquisition by Amazon in 2013. Prior to his entrepreneurial success, he co-founded the acquired startup Local Crime and worked as an early software engineer at Tellme Networks after studying computer science at Stanford University. Transitioning to venture capital, Chandler has invested in more than 50 early-stage companies and recently helped raise over $100 million for Founder Collective's sixth fund in 2024. Beyond his core investment activities, he shares startup metrics with an audience of over 500,000 followers and speaks at industry events like TechCrunch Disrupt. His current professional focus centers on advising founders and funding early-stage consumer internet, developer tools, and artificial intelligence startups.
