Craig's Open Road
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Craig Newmark Highlight (0:52)
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Interview (3:24)
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Play Fair, Work Hard (0:16)
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Craigslist Idea (1:24)
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Success (1:00)
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Time Management (0:56)
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INTERVIEWED BY:
Team Atlanta
CRAIG NEWMARK
Founder
Craigslist
“You play fair, you work hard, and you get ahead.”
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THEMES DISCUSSED:
Values Hobbies & Pastimes Determination Success
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BIOGRAPHY:
- Spent 17 years at IBM right out of school, "didn't take any initiative in terms of [his] career."
- Finally snapped out of it, got a job he liked at Charles Schwab.
- Started Craigslist as a hobby, with the idea that he'd send his friends 10 or 12 cool events.
- People started making suggestions, like that he should include job postings; just kept growing.
- By 1998, it'd become so popular that he decided to make it "a real company."
- Works on two core values: "Play fair, work hard and you get ahead," and "treat people the way you want to be treated."