Curious about Craigslist’s success? Then check out this podcast that founder Craig Newmark did with David Weinberger. Quote of the podcast from Newmark: “Everything on the site is based on user feedback. Frankly, I have no vision whatsoever.” At the mesh conference last week, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster dropped a few mind-blowing facts:
1. The site is serving up seven billion pageviews a month from 200 servers
2. All 24 employees work at a Victorian house in San Francisco
3. The company has never had a tech quit in 12 years
4. Craigslist never holds meetings.
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Pretty wild stuff, with such a simple concept I suppose you wouldn’t neat to adhere to a traditional corporate structure! Seven billion pageviews is just ridiculous.. think of how much money they could be making..
I guess it’s all about the corporate culture.
no meetings would be enough for me to work there
interesting….
would _you_ want to be the tech known to have quit (and therefore lost millions) before craigslist went public?
No wonder that they won’t quit.
I would have never found or used craigslist if it wasn’t for listpic.com I have sold and bought things because of them. If everything WAS based on userfeedback then they would have never banned listpic.com. I CANNOT believe that taking away a website that lets you browse thru a hundred pics of ads at once is progress or in their best intrest. I have NO desire to READ each ad when I can SEE them all. After all this IS 2007 not 1987. Until they unblock listpic.com I have NO time or use for craiglist.
How old is Craigslist?
It’s refreshing to see that there is still someone who hasn’t sold out and
let greed dictate every decision they make. Life is not about trying to
accumulate as much money as possible despite what capitalist society
want you to believe.
Does E-Bay still have a 25% stake in CL?
Very cool, it’s quite an aspiration and actually very hard to keep the same community focus
That’s not quite true. One of my friends works there, J. He quit his job as one of the programmers then came back about 6 months or a year later.
He never answers this question… how does CL make money?
how in the hell do they make any money? I have never seen an ad or a request for donation on craigslist.com ever. stange
I first heard of craigslist in 1996. Even met Craig when he worked at Charles Schwab in San Francisco. Quiet guy. I believe he started it in late 1995, shortly after Netscape went public and Windows 95 came out in August 1995. At the time, it was how high-tech employees got work in the Bay area. My, how it has changed!
Gadrey: Craigslist charges to list job postings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and NYC. It also charges brokers a fee for apartment listings in NYC.
WillyPete: Yes, eBay owns 25% of Craigslist. eBay purchased the stake from one of Craiglist’s early employees, who was given the shares.
CL makes $$ off of charging landlords and employers for listing properties in 3 major metro areas and, yes, eBay still has a quarter of the company. The book “Founders at Work” has a great summary of their story. I wrote up a digest of it here->
http://www.grid7.com/archives/126_faw-18-craig-newmark-of-craigslist.html
sean
Starting this website was one of the best things to happen on the net. If you have a product to sell it will sell on Craigslist!
I know that one day Craigslist may go public, and when that happens they will probably cash out!
Yeah I bet they work really hard too. lol
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