For anyone who didn’t get to last week’s Mesh conference in Toronto, good news. Mark Evans‘ keynote discussion with the very laid back Craigslist Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster is now online.
Buckmaster explains how to make more than enough money to meet your needs, by just doing things that your customers request. His don’t-be-greedy approach must help discourage would-be competitors. Craigslist’s huge scale means it can be profitable, even though it only charges a small fee for a few types of listings and allows users to post the rest free of charge.
The video of this discussion is high-resolution and about 16 minutes long, so may take a while to download, even on broadband.
It was produced by Greg Philpott’s new Toronto-based business mdialogue, which has other video from Mesh too.
Mdialogue, by the way, is aimed at people who want to publish DVD and HDV quality videos online, including movie-length files.