Coffee with Craig (Newmark)

A Professor, myself, and a few of my classmates had coffee with Craig Newmark on Monday.  He is probably one of the most down-to-earth people I've ever met.

In fact, so down-to-earth it was almost surreal.  Strange.

Anyway, it was interesting to hear him talk about the success of craiglist.  He summed it up something like this: "We have no idea what we are doing, why we are successful, or how we are doing it...we just kind of go with the flow".

It's interesting because every entrepreneur wants to know "How'd you do it?!", "How are you so successful?", "What's your secret?".  Craig's response is usually something like this: "We don't know how it happened, but it happened".

Anyway, toward the end of the coffee session he pulled out a tiny little computer and said, "I've got to do some customer service now", and that is how it ended...