Craigslist

“And I got, like, 500 responses in a matter of a couple of days.”

“We put an ad on Craigslist. It was very obnoxious saying interviews are next week. We were looking for a co-founder CTO. If you're not here in New York City next week, then you're, you can't be interviewed, and that's it. Within 24 hours, we had 450 applicants…”

“We would sell out his spot every day on Craigslist.”

“And frankly, my suckage was kind of brutal made him CEO, committed to him that I would not interfere with what he was doing. I would leave him to do his job.”

“There were folks from Microsoft Microsoft sidewalk who wanted to put up banner ads, but I'm thinking banner ads are usually stupid. I don't need the money. I'm doing well enough. So I said no banner ads”

“And I did as a purely symbolic gesture, gave him and others big chunks of equity and, Not thinking that it might be worth a lot of money someday.”

“There's no reason that any newspaper couldn't have done exactly what I did. Remember that the stuff I was doing, the coding that I was doing, was fairly simple from my point of view.”

“The amount of profit the company makes. No one outside of the company knows that. There are people who will fabricate numbers to fill out an article, but the rule of thumb is that if somebody's telling you how much Craigslist makes you might want to disregard …”

“I do think about Craigslist future, but if a community service fails in its mission to be a community service, maybe it's time to go.”

“In the middle of 95 at about 240 addresses, the CC list broke, and I had to use a listserv.”

“Because then VCs and bankers were funding people to make a lot of money, and there's not the kind of money that they're talking about in classifieds.”

“I, in the past, felt that Craigslist did have a substantial effect on newspaper survival, but until No one had done any of the numbers. I'd spoke to industry analysts like Ken doctor and Rasmus Nielsen, who said it was ridiculous to think Craigslist had that b…”

“EBay told us that they had the same community mission, the same vibe that we did. We were convinced of it. So we authorized that guy to sell his equity to eBay.”

“And that meant charging the people who put up a job, not the people who put up a resume. We would charge apartment owners, homeowners for their ads when they wanted to rent stuff out. We would not charge the people who were looking. And that's the philosophy t…”

“I've now committed all of that revenue to the charity world.”

“But I'm a great customer service rep, so that's what I did really heavily for about another 15 years or so.”

“Jim did. I was not bold enough to do that expansion. Jim was, and he took the site tech architecture that I'd started on. He made it happen, and he did so while maintaining the vibe we talk about, and it's the right thing, and it turns out to be the successful…”

“All of my success has to do with accidentally being in the right time, right place, accidentally making the right decisions, which makes me the Forrest Gump of the internet.”

“I wanted to call it San Francisco events, but there were people around me Who are much smarter than me. Like a guy named Anthony bat. He told me people were calling my mailing list. Craigslist. He told me that I had created a brand. He was right. I had created…”

“By the end of 97, we hit about a million pages per month, which was a lot then.”

“In part, I don't perceive them being a competitor because they don't have the same vibe, the same mission that we do.”