I emailed both Craig and Jim Buckmaster, and they basically refused without giving any good reasons (rumor is that Buckmaster is a communist and doesn’t like money out of principle, or something like that). I probably still have those emails somewhere, but I summarized the conclusion here:
I think the number of comments you had requesting email addresses for their amazing opportunities highlights the difficulty of getting this idea to work.
I’m having major déjà vu. I had pretty much exactly the same idea in 2007 and wrote about it here:
http://michaelgr.com/2007/04/18/to-craig-newmark-put-ads-on-craigslist-change-the-world/
I emailed both Craig and Jim Buckmaster, and they basically refused without giving any good reasons (rumor is that Buckmaster is a communist and doesn’t like money out of principle, or something like that). I probably still have those emails somewhere, but I summarized the conclusion here:
http://michaelgr.com/2007/04/19/email-conversation-with-craig-newmark/
I think the number of comments you had requesting email addresses for their amazing opportunities highlights the difficulty of getting this idea to work.