Craigslist as VC Antimatter

By Paul Kedrosky · July 26, 2007 · ·

Try to imagine Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster giving this answer to your average VC team during a pitch in Craigslist’s early years. Fun, huh?

What interests or hobbies do you have outside work?

Each year [my companion] Susan and I spend a week out of cell phone coverage with friends and an ostrich named Huey on an organic farm called Emandal on the Eel River in Mendocino County.

[Fortune via Valleywag]

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Comments

  1. Seth Finkelstein says:
    July 26, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    I’m assuming there’s an in-joke there, on the cartoon character “Baby Huey”.