Hey everybody - for that research thing I decided to cover the classified ad, and community network site www.craigslist.org. Not only is Craigslist important for being the 7th most viewed site on the english speaking internet, but I think the site deserves attention for becoming immensely successful without advertisements or typical commercial concerns of internet companies.
Here is the founder... Craig... (what did you think he was going to be named) Newmark, explaining his philosophy on why not-selling out was probably a really good idea.
Also another neat thing... here is a picture of their headquarters...
Not exactly what you expected, was it?
I think they seem like pretty humble people and not like your typical computer internet tycoons - and if I some day work for a company I hope it has similar ethics to www.craigslist.org/ . They seem to have realized that maximizing for profit gets in the way of breaking new ground - so cheers to them.
Lev
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craigslist has totally revolutionized the classified... and has taken a good chunk of users from ebay, with how useful it is finding what you need locally... good idea to focus on that as a starting point!
I agree - craigslist is amazing - it has changed how I regard travel and the sense of possibilities for houses, apartments and space. So often people are trustworthy and craigslist is possible because of that. This example is especially potent because it focuses on possibilities between online and lived local space.
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