Most everyone knows about Craigslist.org. Craigslist is as internet website that posts local classifieds and forums for 450 cities worldwide. You can find jobs, housing, goods, services, romance, local activities, and advice-just about anything.
Craigslist.org originated as an email list of San Francisco events, started as a hobby by Craig Newmark in early 1995. Since late 2000 Jim Buckmaster has been CEO and runs the website. Craig still works full time in customer service and makes plenty of media appearances.
The traffic generated on this website is more than 8 billion page views a month, and more than 30 million people use Craigslist publishing more than 25 million new classified ads each month, and well over 1.5 million new job listings every month.
Craigslist.org employs 25 people that work out of a Victorian house in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco and affords to operate by charging below-market fees for job ads in 7 cities, and for brokered apartment listings in NYC. Job ads post for $25 for NYC, LA, DC, Boston, Seattle and San Diego, and $75 in San Francisco. They rely a lot on local communities to suggest ways to make money without compromising craigslist instead of worrying about creating more revenue. Reaching so many people and simply using Internet Advertising.....good job Craigslist!