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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

In an Inc interview in 2016, Craig Newmark reminisces on the early form of Craigslist – literally just an email list – and how he intuitively added product categories over time: Craigslist began with a single email in 1995–you simply shared interesting things going on in San Francisco. Or perhaps all of them!