Craig Newmark

If I was lucky, it could be, let's say, something worthwhile a few times a day. Oh, nice. Okay. The deal is not that big, but let's say high value. And I was being careful. I didn't want to spam anyone. Right. And it just kept growing via word of mouth. And we've never really done any advertising. Yeah. I've never seen it.

I should be careful, I'll wrap around to it, but I'm not involved with the thing nowadays. I'm retired, busier than I've been, but retired. But yeah, the deal is it's just me for a few years. And you're the only staff member.

I should be careful, I'll wrap around to it, but I'm not involved with the thing nowadays. I'm retired, busier than I've been, but retired. But yeah, the deal is it's just me for a few years. And you're the only staff member.

I should be careful, I'll wrap around to it, but I'm not involved with the thing nowadays. I'm retired, busier than I've been, but retired. But yeah, the deal is it's just me for a few years. And you're the only staff member.

Mostly I was thinking about jobs. Okay. Because one of the best things you could do for someone is to help them get a job. Sometimes then help them, well, find a place to live. What Craigslist is about in a lot of ways is helping people put food on the table.

Mostly I was thinking about jobs. Okay. Because one of the best things you could do for someone is to help them get a job. Sometimes then help them, well, find a place to live. What Craigslist is about in a lot of ways is helping people put food on the table.

Mostly I was thinking about jobs. Okay. Because one of the best things you could do for someone is to help them get a job. Sometimes then help them, well, find a place to live. What Craigslist is about in a lot of ways is helping people put food on the table.

It was completely free the first three years, but the people who were putting jobs on there wanted me to charge them to post for jobs. Because they felt indebted in some way? Well, they felt that they were paying a lot more money for job ads in other places with fewer results, less quality results. So they said, charge us a little bit, that'll pay the bills. And they were right.

It was completely free the first three years, but the people who were putting jobs on there wanted me to charge them to post for jobs. Because they felt indebted in some way? Well, they felt that they were paying a lot more money for job ads in other places with fewer results, less quality results. So they said, charge us a little bit, that'll pay the bills. And they were right.

It was completely free the first three years, but the people who were putting jobs on there wanted me to charge them to post for jobs. Because they felt indebted in some way? Well, they felt that they were paying a lot more money for job ads in other places with fewer results, less quality results. So they said, charge us a little bit, that'll pay the bills. And they were right.

Experimented a little bit with volunteers and charging for jobs. in 98, but I got the idea from people in 97, running with volunteers didn't work.

Experimented a little bit with volunteers and charging for jobs. in 98, but I got the idea from people in 97, running with volunteers didn't work.

Experimented a little bit with volunteers and charging for jobs. in 98, but I got the idea from people in 97, running with volunteers didn't work.

You know, I don't really know how big it got through that time. Because in 96, I remembered that I'm a programmer. I can write software which turns emails into web pages. And so I started doing that, which gave me web publishing for free. And when something started taking too much of my time, I wrote some more code, which reduced what might take an hour a day to a few minutes a day. Got it.

You know, I don't really know how big it got through that time. Because in 96, I remembered that I'm a programmer. I can write software which turns emails into web pages. And so I started doing that, which gave me web publishing for free. And when something started taking too much of my time, I wrote some more code, which reduced what might take an hour a day to a few minutes a day. Got it.

You know, I don't really know how big it got through that time. Because in 96, I remembered that I'm a programmer. I can write software which turns emails into web pages. And so I started doing that, which gave me web publishing for free. And when something started taking too much of my time, I wrote some more code, which reduced what might take an hour a day to a few minutes a day. Got it.

And that happened a number of times. But 98 tried running it with volunteers. The people who cared for the thing, who were doing job postings in particular, said volunteer thing isn't working. Sometimes things would take a while to get posted. So I had to make the thing into a real company.

And that happened a number of times. But 98 tried running it with volunteers. The people who cared for the thing, who were doing job postings in particular, said volunteer thing isn't working. Sometimes things would take a while to get posted. So I had to make the thing into a real company.

And that happened a number of times. But 98 tried running it with volunteers. The people who cared for the thing, who were doing job postings in particular, said volunteer thing isn't working. Sometimes things would take a while to get posted. So I had to make the thing into a real company.

Yeah, I need to hire other people to do coding, customer service, billing. And that meant making it into an actual corporate structure. Was that scary to think about that? Very scary. But the hard part was at that point, you know, at events, parties, I would talk to bankers and venture capitalists who wanted me to do the usual Silicon Valley thing.