Yet Another Interview With Craig (and Jim)

[mandy]

Interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and CEO Jim Buckmaster:

Q: What do you think of the challenges to Craigslist posed by Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites that have the ability to implement similar free classifieds (such as Facebook’s “Existing Marketplace“)?

JIM: As Mae West once said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

CRAIG: If these sites genuinely help people connect, then that’s always a good thing.

Q: How do you manage 450 massive classified Web sites with only 24 employees? More specifically, what internal processes and editing are involved?

JIM: We’ve bloated up to 25 staffers now, but the reality is that the 100 million Craigslist users prefer to manage the site for themselves, and are much better at it than we are. We hope they’ll remember us fondly.

full article: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/20...questions/