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I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)

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Re: I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)

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Curious to know if Craigslist still hands out equity to employees?

Probably not after the whole eBay fiasco.

No equity at all? I doubt that. The eBay fiasco arose because one employee had ~28% equity in the company, which is far, far more than an engineer joining at this stage could reasonably expect to receive.

Re: I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)

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Relaxing read, not a heck of a lot insight though. I guess the blog kicker means what it says "Some random bits scribbled"

Sorry it wasn't more insightful. Maybe after I've been there a few weeks I'll have more interesting things to say...

You needed to incorporate aviation into it somehow. I think that would have sold everyone. ;)

Re: I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not after the whole eBay fiasco.

No equity at all? I doubt that. The eBay fiasco arose because one employee had ~28% equity in the company, which is far, far more than an engineer joining at this stage could reasonably expect to receive.

Don't you think it had more to do with the fact that the company was structured so that he could sell his equity to outsiders?
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