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Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet

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I figured I'd start a very simple mailing list. Where maybe uh I would tell ten to twelve people about stuff going on. And it kept spreading word of mouth. More stuff started.

I said. Hey apartments are getting harder to find. So people can send me that. Other people wanted me to put job postings on there. So I do

In the middle of ninety five. at about two hundred forty addresses. The C C List. Broke. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements.

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