Mas certamente que sim!

Quem quiser perceber o que é e como funciona a economia na Internet, só tem de ler e perceber Craig Newman, o homem que fez a Craig’s list (audiência: 30 milhões de pessoaspor mês. Uma entrevista com pouco de novo e muito de basilar.

And this makes enough money for the company to survive and for your 25 San Francisco-based employees to get their paychecks? Right. It ain’t bad. We just do what feels right and plug away.

There have been ongoing concerns and criticisms from the newspaper industry that free online ad sites like Craigslist are eating them alive and drastically reducing their revenues. What’s your reaction? No one in the newspaper industry seriously says that. I’ve spoken to a lot of publishers, editors and industry analysts. They say that our site does have a small but measurable effect on classified revenues. But they say the bigger problems are those niche-classified sites which go after the more profitable classified categories, specifically cars and jobs. There’s Autotrader.com and Monster.com. Newspapers have much bigger problems. Newspapers are going after 10% to 30% profit margins for their businesses and that hurts them more than anything. A lot of things are happening on the Internet that never happened before because the Internet is a vehicle for everyone. The mass media is no longer only for the powerful, and that’s a huge change for the entire newspaper and news industry.

Em Q&A: Craig Newmark, of ‘Craigslist’ fame, looks back — and ahead.