{"id":210,"date":"2006-12-07T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/12\/craigslist-business-success-without-a-profit-motive.html"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:04:00","slug":"craigslist-business-success-without-a-profit-motive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/craigslist-business-success-without-a-profit-motive\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigslist: Business success without a profit motive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.blogger.com\/www.craigslist.org\/about\/jim_buckmaster.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.blogger.com\/www.craigslist.org\/about\/jim_buckmaster.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"articleText\">Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster spoke to Wall Street analysts this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.mediapost.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&#038;art_aid=52242\">stunning them with his lack of interest in maximizing profits or revenue<\/a>. Two years ago, a study estimated that Craigslist is costing Bay Area newspapers $50 million annually in lost revenue. Today, the site is far more influential. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">And it doesn&#8217;t care about profits.<\/span> How do you compete with that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster spoke to Wall Street analysts this week, stunning them with his lack of interest in maximizing profits or revenue. Two years ago, a study estimated that Craigslist is costing Bay Area newspapers $50 million annually in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/craigslist-business-success-without-a-profit-motive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-3o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}