Craigslist
classified advertisements website
Common Themes
Videos Mentioning Craigslist
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
All-In Podcast
Online classifieds site, mentioned as having its market share taken by Facebook Marketplace.
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco
Y Combinator
The platform App Deco is based on, aiming to improve upon its fragmentation and unreliability for furniture sales by adding trust, easy logistics, and secure payments.
Porn Addiction, The Corrosiveness of Secrets, and Books to Change Your Life | Jason Portnoy
Tim Ferriss
A website where Jason first discovered the 'casual encounters' section, which became a gateway to further problematic behaviors.
Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal | Lex Fridman Podcast #272
Lex Fridman
A classified advertisements website where Brett Johnson found a landscaping job after his release from prison.
Q&A with Tim — PR and Marketing Lessons, Time Dilation, Selling to the Affluent, and Much More
Tim Ferriss
A platform where one could find people to test a product.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
All-In Podcast
Classified advertisements website, presented as a platform whose various categories eventually spun off into dedicated marketplaces and apps (e.g., Airbnb, Uber).
Scaling Product | Fireside with Joe Gebbia and Reid Hoffman
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a platform where early Airbnb customers were active and gathered insights from.
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi
Y Combinator
A platform previously used for apartment hunting, highlighting the need for a better user experience that Rezi aims to provide.
I Hired A Pickup Artist To Help Me Find A Girlfriend
Tim Ferriss
Mentioned as a potential platform for non-technical individuals to find developers for custom dating filters.
Culture with Brian Chesky and Alfred Lin (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 10)
Y Combinator
Mentioned in relation to Craig Newmark's philosophy of open access, influencing Airbnb's initial approach to accepting all hosts.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
All-In Podcast
A classified advertisements website mentioned as a large corpus of data that famously prohibits scraping, highlighting challenges for AI data acquisition.
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel
Y Combinator
Mentioned as one of the existing platforms that did not facilitate payments for house shares, contributing to friction for users before Airbnb's integrated payment system.
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future
Y Combinator
An online classifieds platform where Dropbox recruited early users to observe product usage.
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache
Y Combinator
Used as a platform for finding affordable housing arrangements like shared rentals.
Ben Silbermann at Startup School SV 2016
Y Combinator
Ben Silbermann used Craigslist to find and hire some of Pinterest's early engineers.
Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016
Y Combinator
A platform used by Apartment Deco for initial customer acquisition and later for hiring delivery personnel. Initially, they scraped listings without seller permission.
Ooshma Garg at Startup School SV 2016
Y Combinator
The platform where the founder posted an ad to find people willing to cook dinner for her, which led to the initial idea for Gobble.
Joe Gebbia Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A classifieds website where Joe Gebbia found his former roommate, Nate, who later became a co-founder of Airbnb.
Gobble founder Ooshma Garg speaks at Female Founders Conference 2016
Y Combinator
A classified ads website where Ooshma Garg posted an ad seeking chefs for home-cooked meals.
Julie Rice — Co-Founding SoulCycle | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
The online platform where Julie Rice's co-founder found the first SoulCycle studio space.
How to Negotiate a Prenup — Ramit Sethi
Tim Ferriss
Online classifieds platform mentioned as a potential alternative for finding someone to deliver groceries.
Kevin Systrom at Startup School SV 2014
Y Combinator
A classified ad website that 'The Tree List' was intended to emulate, though ultimately with a different focus.
Adora Cheung
Y Combinator
An online classifieds website mentioned as a way people find cleaners, but with concerns about lack of background checks.
Nate Blecharczyk at Startup School 2013
Y Combinator
The platform through which the speaker first found a place to live and met his future co-founder, Joe Gebbia.