#44 - New e-mail clients, Sharing the craigslist office & How to keep your star players

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Shaan Puri** (0:42)
Sweet, gold shoes, dude.

**Sam Parr** (0:43)
Thank you, they are, they're women's.

**Shaan Puri** (0:47)
Thank you, they're women's.

**Sam Parr** (0:50)
I think they're size 14

**Shaan Puri** (0:51)
Did you have to convince them to give them to you?

**Sam Parr** (0:54)
Well, they're like, you know those are women's. I was like, yeah, I don't care.

**Shaan Puri** (0:57)
Right.
It's like when we were buying these chairs, we were like, give us the reddest, brightest chair you've got. And they're like, well, you sure you don't want this good looking chair? We're like, no, no, no. We want the brightest, reddest chair in the store. We want two of them and we want them now.

**Sam Parr** (1:12)
Yeah, that's what happened with these shoes. Okay, so we're going to try, we're doing this as a reminder, we're doing this to get 100,000 listens per episode. We're doing good. The last 30 days have been the most listened ever. So here's what I want to do.
If you like this podcast, or if you don't like it, just do this anyway, please go to iTunes and give us a five-star review. Take a screenshot of you doing that and DM one of us, and we'll give you a surprise.

**Shaan Puri** (1:42)
I'll take a four-star even. I'll take a four.

**Sam Parr** (1:44)
Yeah, a four will be fine.

**Shaan Puri** (1:46)
Give us an honest review. That's all I care about.

**Sam Parr** (1:47)
We have 250 or 300 reviews. Let's see if we can get to 1,000. So leave us a review.

**Shaan Puri** (1:52)
Tweet it at us, and we will do something. We got to figure out something cool.

**Sam Parr** (1:57)
And follow The Hustle and Shaan and me on socials, and we're taking all these videos and turning them into clips, and we'll be sharing them and all that shit.

**Shaan Puri** (2:04)
And all the links for this are going to be in the notes of the podcast, so you don't have to remember our handles or whatever.

**Sam Parr** (2:09)
So, leave us a review, send a screenshot, and we will mail you back a special surprise.

**Shaan Puri** (2:15)
So let's give the people what they want. Let's give them some good stuff. I see up here Craiglist's story.

**Sam Parr** (2:19)
Yeah. So we ended this yesterday, and I thought this would be a cool story to start things off. So when we started our company, when I started this company, the first office that I had... Did you ever go to that one?

**Shaan Puri** (2:28)
I've been to it. Well, is it the...

**Sam Parr** (2:31)
Craiglist's.

**Shaan Puri** (2:31)
Craiglist's one. Yes, I've been there.

**Sam Parr** (2:32)
So the first office I had, we didn't have a lot of money. And I moved... I started, me and Siava, my friend, we co-leased an office in the Inner Sunset, which is a non-popular neighborhood in San Francisco, but it's lovely.

**Shaan Puri** (2:46)
And it just looked like an apartment.

**Sam Parr** (2:48)
It was a house that was zoned mixed use. And when we went to visit it, there was a sign that said Craiglist, 1996 to 2000, whenever we moved in, 15 or 16 or 17 I forget.
My portion of the rent was $500, which was a lot of money at the time. And because we had just started the business, we only were making 30 grand a month. And we moved in and there was a desk still in one of the rooms. And this was like a... It wasn't a shitty apartment, but it kind of was a shitty apartment.
It was a three-bedroom apartment, less than a thousand square feet. And I move in and Craig from Craiglist, Craig Newark, he actually left his desk there. And his desk was a kitchen table. That was his desk. But it was too heavy to move. And so he just kept it there. So that's what I use. And the landlord, I came in, his name was Emmanuel, I believe.
He came in and I was like, hey, so Craiglist was here? He's like, yeah. Craig started the, he lived down the street in Cold Valley. He started the company here from 96 up until recently. I go, oh, what was that like? He's like, yeah, they were kind of like little celebrities in the neighborhood. Everyone knew about them. And at the time when they moved out, they were making something like five or $600 million a year in revenue.