Craig Newmark

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.

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.

monetize everything, and they would throw billions at me. And I was thinking, I don't need billions. I don't understand why people would do that. And that has to do with in Sunday school, Mr. and Mrs. Levin, they taught me that you should know when enough is enough. They taught me to treat people like you want to be treated. So nothing altruistic.

monetize everything, and they would throw billions at me. And I was thinking, I don't need billions. I don't understand why people would do that. And that has to do with in Sunday school, Mr. and Mrs. Levin, they taught me that you should know when enough is enough. They taught me to treat people like you want to be treated. So nothing altruistic.

monetize everything, and they would throw billions at me. And I was thinking, I don't need billions. I don't understand why people would do that. And that has to do with in Sunday school, Mr. and Mrs. Levin, they taught me that you should know when enough is enough. They taught me to treat people like you want to be treated. So nothing altruistic.

This is just a return to Sunday school values literally. And so we, Craigslist philosophy is to monetize only those ads for people who are paying more money for less effective ads. So not an altruistic decision. Right. Just basics.

This is just a return to Sunday school values literally. And so we, Craigslist philosophy is to monetize only those ads for people who are paying more money for less effective ads. So not an altruistic decision. Right. Just basics.

This is just a return to Sunday school values literally. And so we, Craigslist philosophy is to monetize only those ads for people who are paying more money for less effective ads. So not an altruistic decision. Right. Just basics.

Well, that's useful in the sense that, well, everyone is struggling trying to get through the day. Right. And some people are selling, doing things for profit, like brokering apartments in New York City. And with sometimes with questionable ethics. And I found one year that new apartment brokers might make like 20K in a year, which even 15 years ago, you had to work two or three other jobs.

Well, that's useful in the sense that, well, everyone is struggling trying to get through the day. Right. And some people are selling, doing things for profit, like brokering apartments in New York City. And with sometimes with questionable ethics. And I found one year that new apartment brokers might make like 20K in a year, which even 15 years ago, you had to work two or three other jobs.

Well, that's useful in the sense that, well, everyone is struggling trying to get through the day. Right. And some people are selling, doing things for profit, like brokering apartments in New York City. And with sometimes with questionable ethics. And I found one year that new apartment brokers might make like 20K in a year, which even 15 years ago, you had to work two or three other jobs.

So I said, how do you balance the idea that you want to give everyone a break? And I was able to suggest stuff. to the people running the company at that point. Because also in, again, I made Craigslist into an actual company in 99.

So I said, how do you balance the idea that you want to give everyone a break? And I was able to suggest stuff. to the people running the company at that point. Because also in, again, I made Craigslist into an actual company in 99.

So I said, how do you balance the idea that you want to give everyone a break? And I was able to suggest stuff. to the people running the company at that point. Because also in, again, I made Craigslist into an actual company in 99.

We turned it from running it in a room in my house into a room in a commercial strip way out in the neighborhoods of San Francisco. Wow, that's cool. And the other hard decision I had to make that year, 99, was that I started to realize with help that as a manager... I suck. Oh, yeah.

We turned it from running it in a room in my house into a room in a commercial strip way out in the neighborhoods of San Francisco. Wow, that's cool. And the other hard decision I had to make that year, 99, was that I started to realize with help that as a manager... I suck. Oh, yeah.

We turned it from running it in a room in my house into a room in a commercial strip way out in the neighborhoods of San Francisco. Wow, that's cool. And the other hard decision I had to make that year, 99, was that I started to realize with help that as a manager... I suck. Oh, yeah.

Well, mostly hiring and firing. As a nerd, I am not good at reading people. And I needed to... promote someone who would be good at that. And I'd already stopped coding because I hired a bunch of people who are better than me. I stepped down to just do full-time customer service.

Well, mostly hiring and firing. As a nerd, I am not good at reading people. And I needed to... promote someone who would be good at that. And I'd already stopped coding because I hired a bunch of people who are better than me. I stepped down to just do full-time customer service.

Well, mostly hiring and firing. As a nerd, I am not good at reading people. And I needed to... promote someone who would be good at that. And I'd already stopped coding because I hired a bunch of people who are better than me. I stepped down to just do full-time customer service.