Craigslist, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Craigslist comes up
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 24:35 Guy Raz So Toby heads to the Bay Area, buys a used bicycle on Craigslist, and pedals over to Sand Hill Road.
- ▶ 35:30 Tobias Lütke Um, I actually bought a bicycle on, on Craigslist.
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 0:52 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Matt O'Hare was inspired to buy a Texas farm, 20 hens, and some trailers from Craigslist, and built a nearly one billion dollar brand, Vital Farms.
- ▶ 36:37 Matt O'Hayer I bought some old trailers on Craigslist, house trailers, and outfitted them with nesting boxes, and
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 4:49 Travis Rosbach So I got on Craigslist and found a guy who worked at the number one fence company in town, Mike's Fence Center, and he was ready to leave there.
- ▶ 8:36 Travis Rosbach I'm, I'm completely out of this, and we put it on Craigslist and sold a couple weeks later.
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 41:52 Vijen Patel You know, I thought we would, at the time, Indeed was out, Craigslist, you know, we'd post these roles, and we got no hits.
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 1:15 Guy Raz Craigslist. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Craig Newmark I had caught the vibe of the time, as the kids might say, and in the way I started Craigslist, I created its own vibe, where user-generated content became a genuine community thing, and my problem was that it was becoming a little too… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:53 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Craigslist goes from a side project to a full-fledged company.
- ▶ 23:33 Guy Raz It sounds like it was already, you know, by the time you, you, craigslist.org up, up online in 96, it's evolving naturally. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:23 Craig Newmark So at the end of 99, people were telling me, hey, make it into a real company, charge people for it, pay people salaries. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:38 Guy Raz You incorporate as Craigslist as a, as a business for profit, and you decide this is going to become my thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:46 Guy Raz How did you, I mean, look, when you started Craigslist, there wasn't a ton of money coming in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 Guy Raz I mean, Craigslist, I cannot imagine will ever win any design awards. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:31 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, that hands-off style allows Craigslist to thrive and puts Craig's ideals to the test in an uncomfortable partnership with a tech behemoth.
- ▶ 40:09 Guy Raz So it's the early 2000 and Craig Newmark has handed the reins of Craigslist to a new CEO, Jim Buckmaster. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:44 Guy Raz They, they approach Craigslist to acquire it. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:19 Guy Raz And, um, a lot of the, let's say attention is being focused on Craigslist and online advertising that, that a lot of the money is shifted there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:01 Guy Raz So, obviously, you know, your time sort of in managing Craigslist ended early in that period, and your philosophy was, hey, get out of the way, let the most competent people run this thing, which you did, and smartly so, and again, it's a… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:08 Guy Raz Like, even to this day, if I want to find, I don't know, like secondhand skis, which I actually did buy on Craigslist. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:36 Guy Raz That's Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 6:22 Jesse Hodge My wife and I bought our first house, and we wanted a hot tub, but we were poor, so we bought this junky old hot tub off Craigslist, and I just really enjoyed working on it.
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
- ▶ 33:20 Abhi Ramesh So I put up initial job listings on Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 14:55 Mark Lawrence So we would go on Craigslist and tell people they could park there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Mark Lawrence Um, in addition, we also posted on Craigslist, too. 2 times in the scene
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 11:21 Matt Meeker We put an ad on Craigslist.
The Cronut and Dominique Ansel Bakery: Dominique Ansel
Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 7:02 Joel Simkhai You know, Craigslist became very popular, personal ads on, on Craigslist.
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 27:13 Melissa Butler Maybe six or 8000 dollars in molds, and how I bought them, and how I had access to them, is I found a lab that was going out of business, and I think they were in Louisiana, and this guy was selling them, and I found them on Craigslist, I…
HIBT Lab! Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
- ▶ 56:48 Steven Sashen The person who saw ours, her boyfriend had read Born to Run and was a huge fan of that idea, and she says, yeah, we definitely want you to apply, and there's an application that you have to send in that, for reasons that I don't really…
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
- ▶ 50:20 David Heath I sold you a set of concert tickets on Craigslist four years ago.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 2:56 Guy Raz Working out of a Boston coffee shop, Leah found a group of moms to be her first users, and she recruited people from Craigslist to be the first errand runners.
- ▶ 21:18 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Halia taps into Craigslist and her local coffee shop to launch Run My Errant, just in time for the onset of the global financial crisis.
- ▶ 23:46 Leah Solivan I just went to Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:39 Leah Solivan But I'm then frantically posting Craigslist ads and interviewing runners all over the city. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Blogilates: Cassey Ho
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- ▶ 13:57 Will Marshall Uh, you know, I had found it just on Craigslist, uh, happened, I just searched for the house with more than six bedrooms, and it was the, pretty much the only one in that area.
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 36:53 Nikhil Arora Putting it on Craigslist and didn't know what else to do.
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
- ▶ 7:55 Paul Davison Classifieds and Craigslist.
Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill
- ▶ 28:53 Marc Merrill And, uh, yeah, we flew Steve out and, you know, we, we ended up having sort of these young, inexperienced, very passionate people that were sort of interns or whatnot that we hire on Craigslist, but that really understood the content and…
The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- ▶ 27:36 Melissa Butler Maybe six or 8000 dollars in molds, and how I bought them, and how I had access to them, is I found a lab that was going out of business, and I think they were in Louisiana, and this guy was selling them, and I found them on Craigslist, I…
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 0:26 Davis Smith We chose a llama as our, in our logo, kind of our mascot, and we bought two llamas on Craigslist. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:18 Davis Smith We bought two llamas on Craigslist. 4 times in the scene
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney
- ▶ 39:30 Tyler Haney Found a couch to rent in Venice, and ended up living with these lovely folks that I found on Craigslist, and would drive every single day from Venice to El Monte, and Venice to El Monte, making sure that every one of these 11,000 units was…
Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
- ▶ 0:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how homesickness and an ad on Craigslist led two guys to build a single lobster shack in New York and turn it into an international brand, Luke's Lobster. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:09 Luke Holden Through Craigslist.
- ▶ 14:22 Guy Raz What were you doing trolling Craigslist one night? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Ben Conniff So in that thirty-day process, there was also, obviously, a lot of Craigslist posting, and then, and then reading responses from people on Craigslist, and we ended up with just extraordinary people, partly because it was at the height of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:58 Ben Conniff I mean, the fact that I happened to be trolling Craigslist that very particular night, as we said, you know, the fact that there happened to be this recession, that
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
Dippin' Dots: Curt Jones
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 36:48 Tobias Lütke Um, I actually bought a bicycle on, on Craigslist.
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 17:18 Jeremy Stoppelman It was, you know, we were observing that Craigslist was killing the newspaper business by carving out classifieds.
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
- ▶ 19:15 Anthony Casalena So, I went to Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Anthony Casalena Work day and not work day, and so I remember being like, okay, well, let's see, and so, of course, go back to Craigslist, where apparently everything is, and, um, I rented a desk from this architect down in, um, West Broadway and Beach, so…
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 32:03 Blake Mycoskie I started putting as many ads for interns on Craigslist as I could.
SoulCycle: Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
- ▶ 11:07 Julie Rice And true to her word, Thursday the phone rang, and she said, I found something on Craigslist.
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 22:55 Miguel McKelvey And, um, and we posted ads on Craigslist and people started calling, uh, you know, my cell phone
Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
Bumble: Whitney Wolfe
Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman
- ▶ 25:11 Jenn Hyman Needless to say, we figure out, like, right before the website's meant to launch that we have no photos, and we put together an impromptu photo shoot where we found a photographer on Craigslist,
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 21:27 Miguel McKelvey I remember the day when we first did it, we put masking tape down on the floor to sort of show the layout of the workspaces, and we posted ads on Craigslist, and people started calling, you know, my cell phone, and I would meet them and…
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 31:32 Blake Mycoskie I started putting as many ads for interns on Craigslist as I could.
Instacart: Apoorva Mehta
- ▶ 19:35 Apoorva Mehta Well, at first, it was just Craigslist, really.
5-Hour Energy: Manoj Bhargava
Lyft: John Zimmer
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- ▶ 9:26 Joe Gebbia Nate was an engineer who found me on Craigslist, and as we lived together, there were some similarities in how Nate and I worked, which is that we come home from our day jobs, and in the evening, we would both work maniacally on our own…