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StatusPrivately Held
Websitewww.craigslist.org
Blogblog.craigslist.org
CategoryWeb
Address San Francisco, CA
USA
Employees25
Founded3/95

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Craigslist

Craigslist is a supremely popular listings site. Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark in March, 1995, as an email list site for San Francisco and Bay Area events. In June 2000, it added its second city, Boston, and then expanded to the major metropolitan cities in August 2000. As of February 2008, Craiglist now covers 450 in 50 US States and 50 Countries.

Craiglist.org – note the .org domain suffix – is interesting in that it serves no ads and stresses a non-corporate culture. It has only 25 employees, all based in San Francisco, and makes money off job ads in 10 cities, as well as brokered apartment listings in NYC.

In April 2008 Ebay sued Craigslist over stock dilution issues.

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Craigslist Classifieds

StageLive
Launch Date1995

Craiglist’s classified sections include: community, personals, discussion forums, housing, for sale, services, jobs, and gigs. According to craigslist, over 30 million new classifieds are created each month.

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Above: Boston Listings
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Above: Boston -- Sublets listings

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Comments

Doubting Thomas - February 27, 2008 at 5:11pm
Warren, as of right now there are only 9 total jobs listed on shopandsave. NINE!! How is that the best site out there? Good idea, but needs to market itself quite a bit more.
warren G - February 27, 2008 at 3:52pm
craigslist.com is a great site. But to basic. The best site out there is shopandsave.com They have classified ads with video and they work just like craigslist.com They also seperated the classifieds and the corperate ads with local deals. Its briliant.

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