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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Craigslist comes up
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 16:57 James Currier It's not just Facebook and eBay that have these network Craigslist that have these network effects.
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 24:04 Aaron VanDevender If you think about like where, where a lot of that value to people has come from, it's from companies like Lyft, like Postmates, a Craigslist, Amazon Prime, you know, Tinder, you
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 4:12 Wayne Chang So with recruiters, what I hear a lot with other founders is that they would spend 40 to 60% of their time just trying to recruit the team, trying to look through the resumes, go on Craigslist, things like that.
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 3:44 Brad Hargreaves They would go on to Craigslist and find other roommates to live with, and they would rent a bedroom, not an apartment.
- ▶ 8:38 Brad Hargreaves Keep in mind, they can find a much cheaper place on Craigslist, but because it's a great community, it's super convenient, so when they move in, everything is taken care of.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 18:13 Josh Breinlinger If somebody's using Craigslist to hire, and they're using Indeed to hire, and they're using your other marketplace to hire freelancers as well, you don't really have that great lock-in yet.
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 3:32 Melody McCloskey Well, I found my first engineer by posting an ad on Craigslist and
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 2:47 unnamed speaker A side project at a time, which was to just launch a simple Craigslist type service for students at our university to buy and sell things to each other.