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I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)
- adrianwaj 18y agoRelaxing read, not a heck of a lot insight though. I guess the blog kicker means what it says "Some random bits scribbled"
- jzawodn 18y agoSorry it wasn't more insightful. Maybe after I've been there a few weeks I'll have more interesting things to say...
- mrkurt 18y agoYou needed to incorporate aviation into it somehow. I think that would have sold everyone. ;)
- adrianwaj 18y agoSome more thoughts about what would have happened had the Microsoft deal gone through.
- jzawodn 18y agoThat's probably best to get into after I'm not a Yahoo employee anymore, should I decide to get into it at all of course... :-)
- prakash 18y agoCurious to know if Craigslist still hands out equity to employees?
- jonknee 18y agoProbably not after the whole eBay fiasco.
- prakash 18y agoWhich is why I wanted to find out for sure.
- neilc 18y agoNo equity at all? I doubt that. The eBay fiasco arose because one employee had ~28% equity in the company, which is far, far more than an engineer joining at this stage could reasonably expect to receive.
- tptacek 18y agoDon't you think it had more to do with the fact that the company was structured so that he could sell his equity to outsiders?
- npk 18y agoQuestion: Do they have any intention of going public? If not, then what's the point of equity? Profit Sharing?
- fallentimes 18y agoRight - profit sharing. Unless they are trying to build a cash hoard for an acquisition (doubtful) or buy out Ebay (somewhat more likely).
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- supahfly_remix 18y agoI Farted and Would Like Everyone to Sniff It (by Jeremy Zawodny)
- a15 18y agoNo kidding -- he's a perl scripter and knows some mysql. Did he start a company? Why do people care?
- nunu 18y agoWe could all learn lessons in self-promotion from the blogosphere elite!
- ardit33 18y agoDo yourself and us a favor, and go back to reddit.
- xlnt 18y agoHe didn't self-submit, he just posted to his personal blog, so why are you complaining? edit: can one of the downmodders please explain where i'm going wrong? the blog author may have farted (no comment), but he did not do anything to make others sniff it.
- stcredzero 18y agoCraigslist should go into micropayments. Requiring a micropayment of a few cents for posting an ad could completely shut down spammers.
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- breck 18y agoFor the sake of debate, I'll challenge this. As long as money is made by spamming the site, even a micropayment wouldn't completely eradicate spam. Profits from spamming would decrease and spam would probably drop, but only until the expected value of each post equals the micropayment price. Micropayments could even increase spam. People might feel entitled to take more liberties with their posts if they are paying for them.
- stcredzero 18y agoBut since the success rate for SPAM is so low, it only takes a miniscule per-post charge to make it uneconomical. Also, the requirement for payment could be structured to make it much harder for spammers to make arbitrary new identities.
- notauser 18y agoEven if spam never saw a financial return, there would still be spam. A lot of spam is purchased as a 'marketing service' by fools who _think_ spam works, who make a payment to a third party to spam on their behalf. As the failure happens after the payment the effectiveness or lack thereof only modifies the decisions of repeat offenders - and even then only those who actually learn from their mistakes. Of course spam will stop once the world runs out of fools who think they can get rich quick... any day now, really...
- stcredzero 18y agoThe population of fools who think they can get rich quick is related to the incidence of fools who do get rich quick. If no one gets rich spamming Craigslist and everyone instead gets poorer because it's too expensive, then no one will spam Craigslist. Combine the per-post micropayment with the forfeiture of your account balance one if you are caught spamming and I think this would be an effective deterrent. There will be fools who will still spam. They will just do it elsewhere. It's like the two guys in the woods confronted by a bear. One ties his running shows and the other asks if he could really outrun the bear. The first guy says: "I don't have to outrun the bear, just you!"
- milwaukeegreeny 18y agoI'm jealous. I've applied there a couple of times but could never close the deal. Good going Jerem.