Garry Tan
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can trace it to journalism being actually broken down by, I don't know why people don't give Craigslist a little bit more shit for this, actually.
I mean, you can directly trace the decline of ad revenue to newspapers to Craigslist.
And on the other hand, I think people are pretty happy that they can go to Craigslist and sell their toaster.
So I think there's a lot of paradoxes in how technology comes out into the world right now.
That's what are you supposed to do?
Like, were we supposed to protect the newspapers?
Were there supposed to be laws that prevented this from happening?
On the other hand, Craigslist is free and it's giving a service that people are using that is way superior to having to call up the newspaper and pay $20 just to
sell your car or something like that.
So what should the rules be?
And then I always think about, are you familiar with this funny management book?
I know the title, but I haven't read it.
I mean, you don't need to read it because that's basically the whole thing.