“Sometimes people ask us if we are tempted to sell the company or cash in on the success, but we don’t want to. I think that’s another side effect of our just running the company exactly the way we feel good about running it, which is trying to maximise the number of happy e-mails we get from people who’ve assembled their whole lives on the site for free. We all make very good livings and … [have] plenty in our bank accounts, so we’re making plenty of money as it is, so it’s not at all that tempting.”
JIm Buckmaster of Craigslist in an interview in the Times last month.