Category Archives: Jim Buckmaster

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

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 on advertising and marketing to make it a fair go of it, I think it [...]

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

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 an Internet phenomenon by any definition.
But Craig Newmark is no visionary. He’s no [...]

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Some Thoughts On the Personalities At Mesh

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

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

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 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 to maximize performance.

“Do you see a day where advertising is a greater percentage for newspaper companies?”
What is [...]

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

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 simple interface was created and it expanded organically from there.  Why has it been popular?  We’ve been [...]

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