What We Can Learn From Mess. Gary Wolf wrote a Wired cover story about craigslist called "Why Craigslist Is Such A Mess". It's a somewhat strange article because it is highly critical of craigslist's design, management, and lack of innovation. But you cannot read that article and not come away impressed with Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, and the ethos of craigslist.
Here are some stats I pulled from the piece: this site not only beats its competitors—Monster, CareerBuilder, Yahoo's HotJobs—but garners more traffic than all of them combined With more than 47 million unique users every month in the US alone—nearly a fifth of the nation's adult population—it is the most important community site going and yet the most underdeveloped One recent report, from a consulting firm that counted the paid ads, estimates that revenue could top $100 million in 2009.
Craigslist gets more traffic than either eBay or Amazon.com. eBay has more than 16,000 employees. Craigslist has done this by doing very little. Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week. Occasionally, readers of Simple-Talk will ask quizzically if the 'Geek of the Week' that the editors have chosen really is a true 'geek'. Nobody could ever ask that about Craig Newmark, the founder of the famous website 'CraigsList'.
The site is uncompromisingly geeky in attitude, spartan in appearance but immensely popular, and supported by an army of enthusiasts. One can say exactly the same about the admirable Craig Newmark himself. You can’t help but think that the world could learn a little from Craig Newmark. Simply put, he is a nice guy who has good values. It’s a rare compliment in the often cut-throat business world. Through him Craigslist, which started as a free online notice-board helping people find babysitters and re-home old sofas, is now a global phenomenon. Craig Newmark embodies almost every creaking stereotype of the office-bound, gadget-obsessed computer geek. In truth it's been a very long convalescence. So what did he do right, that so many others failed at?
Questions for Jim Buckmaster, CEO, Craigslist - August 6, 2007. (Fortune Magazine) -- With 450 sites in 50 countries, Craigslist is the undisputed leader in online classifieds, despite a stubbornly anticapitalist culture. Fortune's Matthew Boyle took your questions to Buckmaster, 44, to learn what's happening at the Web site that's rocked the ad world and transformed the way we clean our garage. When and what was your first transaction on Craigslist? --Elma Kim, Los Angeles Questions for... Martha Stewart Author, TV host, and the founder of Martha Stewart Omnimedia answers your questions in the Dec. 8 issue of Fortune.
Now's your chance to ask Stewart about launching your own company, how the market turmoil has impacted her empire, and whats next for the titan of homemaking? Previous Q&As A friend told me about Craigslist. What advice would you give to a budding web entrepreneur? Web ventures are best run by techies. How have you overcome any adversities that have been thrown at you during your career? Do you plan to make Craigslist a public company? I'm Joining Craigslist in July. I wasn't really looking for a new job a few months ago when I received an email from Eric Scheide (see Team Bios), the CTO at craigslist. He mentioned that they were looking for someone with MySQL experience and asked if I knew anyone. This sort of thing happens all the time. But this time it was different. Over the course of about three seconds, something clicked in my little brain and I realized that craigslist is a pretty unique combination of things: a small company with a solid financial base, a great service that I use myself, a focused groups of people who really care about doing things well, and an open-source friendly environment.
I replied that I might be interested myself and things kind of took on a life of their own from there. In the weeks that followed, I got the chance to meet much of the team (including CEO Jim Buckmaster and Craig himself). The site is growing like a weed (still!) The only real downside is that crigslist is in San Francisco and I'm in San Jose. Related. Craigblog: eBay and craigslist. eBay and craigslist Hey folks, here's my personal take on the announcement regarding craigslist and eBay. But first, to make sense of this, a little history. I made craigslist into a real company in '99, and made it a corporation (on paper, not attitude) to get the legal protections that you get that way.
That's the way it works in the US. Looking into the future, I figured that maybe someday I'd go middle-aged crazy and/or megalomaniacal, and already, "I can resist anything but temptation" (Oscar Wilde) So, with the idea of establishing checks and balances, mostly on myself, I entrusted some equity in craigslist to a guy who was working with me at the time. (I won't name him, out of respect for his privacy) I figured it didn't matter, since everyone agreed that the equity had only symbolic value, not dollar value. Well, the guy later left the company, and decided to sell his equity, which i learned he had every legal right to do. -- Ed Wes - our lead attorney at Perkins Coie Thanks!
/Craig. Craigslist Meets the Capitalists - Mergers, Acquisitions, Ventur. Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types why his company is not interested in “monetizing” his ridiculously popular Web operation. Appearing at the UBS global media conference in New York, Mr. Buckmaster took questions from the bemused audience, which apparently could not get its collective mind around the notion that Craigslist exists to help Web users find jobs, cars, apartments and dates — and not so much to make money. Wendy Davis of MediaPost describes the presentation as a “a culture clash of near-epic proportions.” She recounts how UBS analyst Ben Schachter wanted to know how Craigslist plans to maximize revenue. It doesn’t, Mr. “I think a lot of people are catching their breath right now,” Mr.
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