The Craig of Craig's List

I would like to recommend viewing this Charlie Rose interview of Craig Newmark--founder of Craig's List. I have to admire him. He insists on maintaining down-to-earth values in his company, and he doesn't care about money. His CEO told Wall Street that they're "not interested" in maximizing profit. Is that refreshing, or what? When challenged by Charlie about whether the free classifieds are doing in newspapers, Newmark emphasized his belief that what is really doing in newspapers is their "going public." They are under pressure to continue to grow by a certain percentage, and that forces them to do whatever it takes to sell, sell, sell, at the expense of some costly and less profitable investigative news reporting. I am increasingly suspicious of "the profit motive." I doubt seriously that Muslim and fundamentalist beliefs that women showing some skin is going to bring us down. But greed will. I was delighted to hear Craig Newmark say a couple of times in this interview that it's good to be comfortable, but beyond that--who needs it? This is coming from a man whose site gets 22,000,000 hits. He could be as rich as anyone if he wanted to be. And yet he doesn't bite the apple. I'm impressed.