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Craigslist Founder Talks Biz: Recession, eBay, Community

Posted Mar 18, 2008 01:33pm EDT by Sarah Lacy in Internet, Newsmakers
Related: eBay, MSFT, NWS

Given his site's concentration of ads for jobs and real estate, I asked Craig Newmark the extent to which he's seeing trouble in the economy. The Craigslist founder also clarifies urban legends about eBay's 25% stake, and offers his views on making money off of community.

 

 

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23 Comments

Joey
Joey - Tuesday March 18, 2008 02:14PM EDT

hi joe dad

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you
Yahoo! Finance User - Tuesday March 18, 2008 02:38PM EDT

www.heyev.com is already doing so much better.

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emt
emt - Tuesday March 18, 2008 02:55PM EDT

hey

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you
Yahoo! Finance User - Tuesday March 18, 2008 02:55PM EDT

http://www.startuphouston.com profiles the latest and greatest Web 2.0 startups

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Gary
Gary - Tuesday March 18, 2008 02:56PM EDT

what a rack

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Roger
Roger - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:06PM EDT

I think this was a phony interview. She doesn't appear to be in the same room. Laughing to portray craigslist as a joke and not to be taken seriously. This is marketing psychology. The news media uses this technique to brainwash the viewers into what they want you to laugh at and take serious.

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you
Yahoo! Finance User - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:10PM EDT

Craigslist, Anericas red light district !

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Aaron
Aaron - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:11PM EDT

Excellent interview

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andrew
andrew - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:12PM EDT

does jpm now administer former bsc "TZK" ?

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olutoyin
olutoyin - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:15PM EDT

do you think we are in a recession

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Patrick
Patrick - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:32PM EDT

Hey...I found a great girlfriend on craigslist.

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Roxie
Roxie - Tuesday March 18, 2008 03:45PM EDT

whatever

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you
Yahoo! Finance User - Tuesday March 18, 2008 04:00PM EDT

Absolutely boring. No information whatsover. Tech ticker is useless. Where is the talk about recession?

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alex
alex - Tuesday March 18, 2008 04:02PM EDT

Craig is a really great guy! Excellent interview!

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KhaledS
KhaledS - Tuesday March 18, 2008 04:04PM EDT

Hey Craig, Do you use paper to record your thoughts? Do you go to restaurants to eat? Do you go to the movies to watch movies? Oh, you do? How fascinating and intriging, tell me and the rest of the audience more!

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Hello
Hello - Tuesday March 18, 2008 04:30PM EDT

Note the camera angles on both subjects, the timing of question/answer and the voice echo differences to see how fake this was. Almost nearly as bad as the Donald Trump voice overs in the Apprentice. Are things so bad at yahoo that you send an intern or an ugly person out for the interview and then edit in some eye candy back at the office.

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richhard
richhard - Tuesday March 18, 2008 04:48PM EDT

That chick is nice. Recession? har!! har!!! We are in a STAGFLATION a stagnant economy thats being inflated by a corrupt government... We are boardering on a serious DEPRESSION oooh the buggieman word. The multi-national companies are making money by exporting raw materials for assembly overseas and importing it back at 99% duty free the joke is on them because laying off our workers whose going to buy the Walmart welcome guy??? I bet the interviewer can be on craigs list too

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- Tuesday March 18, 2008 05:00PM EDT

Yahoo, lets Fire Sarah Lacy. She is the worst reporter ever.

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PJ
PJ - Tuesday March 18, 2008 05:22PM EDT

Are we in a recession? Not to be rude but one word DUH!

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you
Yahoo! Finance User - Tuesday March 18, 2008 05:33PM EDT

Nice... People do get paranoid

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