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Ilana

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5243 total appearances

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

So let's talk for a second about them, but also what's your why, Craig? I mean, you could be on the beach all day slurping, maybe mojitos, like whatever. Why drive these amazing causes?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

So let's talk for a second about them, but also what's your why, Craig? I mean, you could be on the beach all day slurping, maybe mojitos, like whatever. Why drive these amazing causes?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

So this is your fun. So contributing, drilling into cybersecurity and what it can do to America and how to defend from it. This is your fun.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

So this is your fun. So contributing, drilling into cybersecurity and what it can do to America and how to defend from it. This is your fun.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Amazing. So what do people, if they're listening, what do they need to know about some of these causes that you're so passionate about, whether it's in the cybersecurity or the vets or the military families, what do they need to know?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Amazing. So what do people, if they're listening, what do they need to know about some of these causes that you're so passionate about, whether it's in the cybersecurity or the vets or the military families, what do they need to know?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

And I love that. And you have, I mean, there's a lot of, especially in Israel, there's a lot of different cybersecurity companies and ventures and startups around it. Is that something that you're passionate about? Is that something that you're jumping in to study more, to learn more about the trends and what's going on? Like, how are you up to date with everything?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

And I love that. And you have, I mean, there's a lot of, especially in Israel, there's a lot of different cybersecurity companies and ventures and startups around it. Is that something that you're passionate about? Is that something that you're jumping in to study more, to learn more about the trends and what's going on? Like, how are you up to date with everything?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Well, that's good for me to know. I mean, I'm going to meet the president and the former prime minister in a few weeks. So definitely something that could be interesting in a lot of the venture capital. So we'll definitely talk. But Craig, if you are talking, you know, our audience are people that your story is like a dream, right? I mean, they're like, I don't know, 30 to 65, maybe.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Well, that's good for me to know. I mean, I'm going to meet the president and the former prime minister in a few weeks. So definitely something that could be interesting in a lot of the venture capital. So we'll definitely talk. But Craig, if you are talking, you know, our audience are people that your story is like a dream, right? I mean, they're like, I don't know, 30 to 65, maybe.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

And they're saying, how can I do more in my life? How can I be more fulfilled? And I have this big mission and this big vision of myself. I want to do more. What would you say to them? I know you feel a lot of it was luck for you, but I also know there's probably a zillion decisions that you did right, whether you realized it or not. What would you say to these people that just want a bigger life?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

And they're saying, how can I do more in my life? How can I be more fulfilled? And I have this big mission and this big vision of myself. I want to do more. What would you say to them? I know you feel a lot of it was luck for you, but I also know there's probably a zillion decisions that you did right, whether you realized it or not. What would you say to these people that just want a bigger life?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I love that you call yourself that. And I think one of the things, Craig, that I think will be very, very interesting also to the listeners is you kept going on things that you're just passionate about. You didn't start from, oh, I need to... be a billionaire and I want to create this big thing.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I love that you call yourself that. And I think one of the things, Craig, that I think will be very, very interesting also to the listeners is you kept going on things that you're just passionate about. You didn't start from, oh, I need to... be a billionaire and I want to create this big thing.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

You just started, you know, like I just, I want to do a list and I want to solve somebody's problem and I want to solve my own problem. And then you kept going. And then like, I'm passionate about cybersecurity. Great. Let me just go into it and just kind of like understand it a little more.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

You just started, you know, like I just, I want to do a list and I want to solve somebody's problem and I want to solve my own problem. And then you kept going. And then like, I'm passionate about cybersecurity. Great. Let me just go into it and just kind of like understand it a little more.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

You're passionate about something and it kind of makes you go all in on what made you go on necessarily have a mission for vets and military families. Like, where is that coming from? It's usually something engraved in you.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

You're passionate about something and it kind of makes you go all in on what made you go on necessarily have a mission for vets and military families. Like, where is that coming from? It's usually something engraved in you.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I love the Pigeon Rescue. So maybe last thing that you would kind of say to our audience or people are listening to you inspired by what you accomplish and what you continue to accomplish. What would you say to them?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I love the Pigeon Rescue. So maybe last thing that you would kind of say to our audience or people are listening to you inspired by what you accomplish and what you continue to accomplish. What would you say to them?