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Mentions personal use of Craigslist.

1 Dec 2024 Lenny's Podcast Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures)

“I used to use Craigslist, and I did a lot of some pretty crazy shit recruiting people through Craigslist.”

— Michael Margolis

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Michael Margolis
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1 Dec 2024
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Lenny's Podcast

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…So it's not like LinkedIn cold email, cold pings, not [inaudible 00:47:24] DMs, things like that. No. I mean, in previous days, I used to use Craigslist, and I did a lot of some pretty crazy shit recruiting people through Craigslist. I had people once meeting me at a hotel room to test a robot through Craigslist. But no, User Interviews is much more legit and very fast. And there are other services like this now, but it's been one of the big changes that speeds a lot of this stuff up. That's way too easy. And how many people do you reach out to to go through a screener, roughly, to get to five?…

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