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Craig is doing things right: he is not greedy and he doing it with vision of general purpose. If craiglist is run by a person who investors like to choose as a
by tlogan 14y ago
Craig is doing things right: he is not greedy and he doing it with vision of general purpose. If craiglist is run by a person who investors like to choose as a founder they will be sold for 10M a long time ago.
The problem with a lot of startups in SV is that their only objective is to make money. Nothing else. Craigslist is very very rare exception.
Now lets downvoting starts...
- jacoblyles 14y agoFlogging yourself doesn't make you righteous. Doing good for the world does. Craigslist wastes several human lifetimes worth of time every month through maintaining a monopoly product with a shitty UI and refusing to let anyone innovate on top of it. They hold back progress and they are evil. They are the IE6 of classified ads.
- stcredzero 14y ago> They hold back progress and they are evil. They are the IE6 of classified ads. That's a good one. I'm going to start using it. (Unless you make copyright objections.)