← All people
Mentioned

Craig Newmark

left his kitchen-table desk in the old office

1 transcript mentions
Mentions over time
1 total · by year · from the transcripts
’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’261
2
receipts
0
numbers
1
episodes
0
guest
By type
2
  • Story1 · 50%
  • Billy1 · 50%
By speaker
2
  • Sam2 · 100%
By topic
4
  • Side Hustles2 · 50%
  • Real Estate1 · 25%
  • Personal Finance1 · 25%
Most quoted in
#44New e-mail clients, Sharing the craigslist office & How to keep your star players2×

Comes up with

most-shared episodes
AirbnbCompany1×Balaji SrinivasanPerson1×CraigslistCompany1×EarnCompany1×EarninCompany1×PaneraCompany1×Rahul VohraPerson1×RapportiveCompany1×

In the moments

2 linked receipts
Story

Sam rented Craigslist's old office for $500 — Craig's kitchen-table desk still there

Sam co-leased Craigslist's original San Francisco office, a sub-1,000 sq ft mixed-use house in the Inner Sunset. Craig Newmark had left behind his desk — a kitchen table too heavy to move — and ran a $500M+/year revenue company that called itself little more than neighborhood celebrities.

“Craig from Craigslist, Craig Newark, he actually left his desk there and his desk was a kitchen table. That was his desk. But it was too heavy to move. And so he just kept it there. So that's what I used.”
EP 44 · 2:17 · SAM
Read at 2:17
mfmindex.com№ 0044-137
Billy

Craigslist was so frugal it withheld rent until the landlord delivered toilet paper

Craig Newmark's Craigslist ran one of the most profitable companies in the world yet was famously cheap. Per Sam's landlord, the lease required the landlord to supply toilet paper monthly — and the team would withhold rent whenever it arrived late.

“And they were so, he said they were so cheap and frugal that in the lease it said something like Emmanuel had to give them toilet paper each month. And every once in a while he would forget or not bring it on time and they wouldn't pay the rent until they got the toilet paper.”
EP 44 · 3:59 · SAM
Read at 3:59
mfmindex.com№ 0044-239