Craigslist, every mention
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every year anyone Shaan Puri 44Sam Parr 19Balaji Srinivasan 6Sarah Moore 2Ryan Petersen 2Ramon Van Meer 1Nader Al-Naji 1Justin Mares 1Andrew Wilkinson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Craigslist comes up
How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
- ▶ 9:00 Sam Parr And so what I did was I posted ads on Craigslist and on, uh, Reddit.
- ▶ 11:05 Sam Parr And so we went to landlords who had two, three, four, five bedrooms, and we would say, we're going to post an ad on Craigslist and we're going to advertise this three bedroom as a one bedroom apartment, meaning
The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
5 Lessons in Business Negotiation from an FBI Hostage Negotiator
- ▶ 9:39 Shaan Puri I'm going and getting a Nintendo off of, uh, Craigslist or whatever it is.
- ▶ 47:54 Shaan Puri Have you had any, uh, any, uh, implementation of any of your techniques that on like the low stakes stuff, we've seen the hustle negotiation, but like, what do you do when you're on Craigslist?
This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu
He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
- ▶ 15:11 Shaan Puri Why don't you go do Yelp ads, Craigslist, whatever you already figured out that you could go into a communities next door, type something and, and, uh, what was this?
- ▶ 41:55 Shaan Puri You go negotiate with somebody off Craigslist.
How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
- ▶ 16:17 Shaan Puri This is actual pictures from my apartment at the time, so this is, you know, our art is like a towel on the wall, this ugly Craigslist couch.
Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- ▶ 53:25 Ryan Petersen We never had enough conference rooms or, uh, and so I made, I got this carpenters on Craigslist to make a couple of phone booths out of, just like wood, built a phone booth in our office at Flexport, and put like a lot of foam padding in… 2 times in the scene
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- ▶ 15:16 Shaan Puri It's Craigslist for friends.
He Turned A $300/Mo Gardening Side Hustle Into $45 Million/Year | Kevin Espiritu Interview
3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
- ▶ 31:28 Shaan Puri You bought it off some craigslist.
The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket
- ▶ 0:36 Shaan Puri Jason Lemkin, a great investor once said that the two greatest self-funded cashflow companies he's ever seen are Craigslist and 37 signals.
How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- ▶ 7:03 Sam Parr On Craigslist, right?
- ▶ 32:53 Shaan Puri It's like, yeah, you built Craigslist inside Facebook.
How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
- ▶ 3:45 Sam Parr And we, and back then on Craigslist, you could use HTML and create these beautiful like images of what the apartments looked like. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 Shaan Puri So the, the smart part there is using Craigslist because Craigslist already had a lot of search volume. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Sam Parr Uh, some of my best friends, dude, I just put another ad on Craigslist and I said, I'm going to organizing a business book club. 3 times in the scene
The 2023 Milly Awards (#531)
- ▶ 7:08 Shaan Puri How she found the business was she, you know, hired 50 interns off of Craigslist and, like, snuck them into the Harvard Business School, like, library to work with her on this.
Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
- ▶ 9:54 Andrew Wilkinson People pay money to post like a blue link, kind of like, uh, Craigslist.
How I Bought A Multi-Million Dollar Egg Carton Business For $0 | Sarah Moore Interview
- ▶ 21:32 Sarah Moore The best interns I found came off Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:32 Shaan Puri Some of the hustle was getting people off Craigslist to be interns to sift through the database.
- ▶ 1:07:44 Shaan Puri So you shared with us the Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City
Scott Harrison: From Nightclub Promoter to Charity Water Founder (#443)
- ▶ 25:53 Shaan Puri That was some old and crusty Craigslist looking site.
BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- ▶ 9:03 Shaan Puri And we were like Craigslisting in the car to find dogs.
University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
- ▶ 56:48 Shaan Puri And I get it that like, you know, Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, these things are like lower trust. 4 times in the scene
How This OnlyFans Model Built A $40 Million Business Empire (#383)
- ▶ 18:27 Shaan Puri So they scraped Craigslist local house listings. 2 times in the scene
How I Spend $15,000/Year To Get & Stay Ripped (As An Entrepreneur) (#366)
- ▶ 3:11 Shaan Puri So I went, I went on Craigslist because I had, I wanted something, and I think Craigslist is massively underrated. 8 times in the scene
The $5M Question, The Company You Would Build If You Had the Time, VR Therapy, and More
- ▶ 41:51 Shaan Puri Um, but basically, I found this, like, old-school-looking, Craigslist-looking website, and it was, we send gifts to your business partners in East Asia.
Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- ▶ 26:33 Shaan Puri I'm on a Craigslist looking at site.
How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, QVC for Mobile, and More
- ▶ 5:04 Shaan Puri Craigslist started off as an email list, and so there was a whole bunch of products that started off
The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
- ▶ 6:44 Nader Al-Naji Um, and so for example, if you look at diamond app or you look at polygram dot, you know, again, polygram dot CC, you go to them and you're like, well, this looks way better than that crappy Craigslist like thing that Natter built on, you…
MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More
- ▶ 59:18 Shaan Puri It was like, oh, let me hire somebody off Craigslist just to make one meal.
From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
- ▶ 10:15 Shaan Puri They don't post it on Craigslist.
- ▶ 33:41 Ramon Van Meer I came up with a name, house improvements or home improvements, one of those two, um, built some, uh, designed a couple very ugly business cards, made a one page, uh, website and put an ad out on the Dutch version of Craigslist.
Near Death Accidents and Hitting $1B ARR with Brian Halligan, Founder and Exec Chairman of HubSpot
- ▶ 55:20 unnamed speaker So nugs is this, okay, so the reason I know about it was the hustle started in this small apartment that I rented for really cheap, but it was Craigslist's old office. 2 times in the scene
12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- ▶ 4:54 Shaan Puri So to me, we got Craigslist.
How to Make Millions by Unbundling Etsy | My First Million #207
- ▶ 15:20 Shaan Puri If you haven't seen this, Google. 3 times in the scene
How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194
- ▶ 3:03 Sam Parr Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Justin Mares Motorcycles that were on Craigslist in Oakland and selling them in San Francisco.
Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- ▶ 52:44 Shaan Puri That's like Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 26:20 Balaji Srinivasan And Craigslist of course was also a factor here. 6 times in the scene
MFM #163: How Chrome Plugins Are Making Millions & How A Studying App is Going Viral
MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail
- ▶ 8:37 Shaan Puri And he starts telling everybody, hey, if you really want to make money, go move back in with your parents and sell their furniture on Craigslist.