Interesting Article About "Craig" The Owner Of Craigslist.org - GoFuckYourself.com

GTS Mark · 01-13-2006, 08:45 AM

How a schlumpy IBM refugee found you your apartment, your boyfriend, your new couch, your afternoon sex partner?and now finds himself killing your newspaper.

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news...500/index.html

It's a bit of a long read but very interesting.

DH

Manowar · 01-13-2006, 08:50 AM

nice reading

darksoul · 01-13-2006, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Manowar

nice reading

You must read uber fast.

kristin · 01-13-2006, 09:12 AM

"The site is free and without advertising (with the exception of help-wanted ads in three markets), and it gets more than 3 billion page views per month (10 million actual users a month), ranking it seventh on the Net, not so far behind Google and eBay."

WOW!!

ssp · 01-13-2006, 09:13 AM

Craig is a top cool guy.

kristin · 01-13-2006, 09:16 AM

And I wonder what his bandwidth bill is ...

gornyhuy · 01-13-2006, 09:17 AM

Its all text, so its probably not too bad on the BW.

HorseShit · 01-13-2006, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by gornyhuy

Its all text, so its probably not too bad on the BW.

there are exactly quite a few pictures on it.. especially on the classifieds

kristin · 01-13-2006, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by gornyhuy

Its all text, so its probably not too bad on the BW.

I agree, but when it's free you wonder. Then I read that he charges in three markets and makes 20 million a year off of those. He makes some good cash on this project.

GTS Mark · 01-13-2006, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by kristin

I agree, but when it's free you wonder. Then I read that he charges in three markets and makes 20 million a year off of those. He makes some good cash on this project.

Yep, however he has a full time staff of 20 and is in San Francisco. I would assume it's not cheap on rent and staff there...

DH

kristin · 01-13-2006, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDER

Yep, however he has a full time staff of 20 and is in San Francisco. I would assume it's not cheap on rent and staff there...

DH

Ouch, I'll admit, I didn't read past the first page. There was too much and it's 930a here. : )

I'm still guessing he does okay for himself for running virtually a free site.

01-13-2006, 08:45 AM	#1
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