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Who Sold eBay the 25% Craigslist stake?

A friend wanted to know, so I did a little sleuthing:

Craig says on his blog that the person was an executive there in 1999 but later left:

http://www.cnewmark.com/archives/000265.html

The Wayback Machine reveals only 3 people on the About Us page in late 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981201210543/www.craigslist.org/aboutus.htm

A Google Search on Nancy Melone leads to this page:

http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_johnsville_archive.html

Indicating she was forced out in 2000 for $32K. Would she have retained a 25% stake? Unknnown.

And a Google Search on Phillip Knowlton shows him as being identified by the WSJ as the shareholder:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake.html

And he remains on the Craigslist About Us page much longer. For example, here he is in December 2002:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021015044310/www.craigslist.org/about/teambios.html

So does a longer tenure make it more likely that he is the fella? Perhaps. And my best bet on the identity of the mystery seller.

Posted by marc at November 20, 2005, 07:13 PM

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