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Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler

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be like, oh look at what I'm working on. Yeah, it was really ugly in the beginning and There were spelling errors and you sent out a activation email and it said

What is it? Let's read together, Otis? Was that what it said? Jo let's Oh no, that was the friend connection email saying let's let's compare books or let's be friends or something like that, but I forgot the apostrophe in let's. And he he got Just reams of emails that just said things like Refuse to join a book site where you can't use an apostrophe correctly. From MPR, it's How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

Guy Raz and on today's show, how Otis and Elizabeth Chandler launched a social network out of their LA apartment. Turn it into the hugely popular book review website Goodreads. Now they sold it to the biggest bookseller. In the world. As I've said many times on this show before,

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