Hooray for Jim Buckmaster
From the NY Times:
Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types why his company is not interested in “monetizing” his ridiculously popular Web operation. Appearing at the UBS global media conference in New York, Mr. Buckmaster took questions from the bemused audience, which apparently could not get its collective mind around the notion that Craigslist exists to help Web users find jobs, cars, apartments and dates — and not so much to make money.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:18 am
What an jerkoff. Without money the world would end. Does Mr. Buckmaster want to destroy our whole planet over a couple of lousy personal values? Shit, I’d sell Craigslist for 10 bucks.
Seriously though, I love Craigslist. Don’t use it as much as I mean to, but when you meet someone else that knows about it there is a good chance that person is pretty cool, or maybe more interesting at least than the average citizen you run across. Unlike that MySpace bullshiit.