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Craigslist founders operate like communists rather than maximizing business value
“They're somewhere between social activists and communists and they have not run their business in a value-maximizing way.”
Rampell: AI startups acquire customers by applying to Craigslist job postings
“We're seeing a lot of companies doing this, they peruse Craigslist, they look for a job listing, and they're like, hey, Plazalane Optometry, I want to apply for the job. And, you know, the optometry's like, Okay, that sounds great. Tell me about your qualifica…”
Craigslist growth halted as vertical marketplaces hollowed out its categories
“And Craigslist, which was one of the largest and fastest growing internet properties in the world, particularly in the US, Has now stopped growing, and it's basically, you know, essentially being hollowed out.”
Jeff Jordan: Unbundling Craigslist is creating hundreds of billions in market cap
“So I think credulous indirectly is spawning tens of hundreds of billions of dollars of market cap.”
Rampell: Fintech startups are unbundling banks category by category like Craigslist
“Along have come many, many startups, and what the startups have done is, one by one, they've picked off a particular category. They've taken this broad horizontal marketplace, kind of like Craigslist, and category by category, they've attacked these different …”
Jin: Every Craigslist category now has its own specialized marketplace
“And basically every single category now has its own specialized marketplace that tackles just that particular category.”
Connie Chan: A Chinese Craigslist would have added transactions long ago
“If Craigslist was in China, they long ago would have added a number of other transactions, either built by themselves or through partnerships.”