Archive for the “Jim Buckmaster” category

Why I’m Hoping eBay’s Kijiji Will “Bring It” To Craigslist

by Tony Hung on July 4, 2007

Not because I think its a better service, or anything.  In the end, I think that Craigslist just has too much inertia, but, I suppose if anyone has the clout and mainstream awareness — and the corporate willingness to spend (…)

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Will No One Say What Everyone Is Thinking? Craig Newmark Was Lucky As Hell. End of Story.

by Tony Hung on June 6, 2007

So, I got to meet Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigstlist at the Mesh Conference last week. And one thing struck me about the interview he did with Mark Evans that is only reinforced by the interview at Wired: Craigslist is (…)

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Some Thoughts On the Personalities At Mesh

by Tony Hung on May 31, 2007

Interesting meeting some of these folks in person. Here are my thoughts on what some of them were like, or seemed like.

Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1112h: Building A Web Business — With Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, Part 2

by Tony Hung on May 31, 2007

More:  On the newspaper industry: I think its easy to point to the Internet when you’re laying people off to raise profit margins to please Wall Street.  In my mind its unfair to lay it our feet and its done (…)

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Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1052: Building A Web Business — With Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, Part I

by Tony Hung on May 31, 2007

Building A Web Business — Mark Evans interviews Jim Buckmaster of Craiglist. How did it start? Craig Newmark started an email cc list that listed cool tech listings.  People started contributing their own listings for apartments etc, in 1996 a (…)

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