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29 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised (Live at 92NY)
“To charge them $10 or $20 for them is nothing, but it would be a rate limiter, and we settled on $10 because I realized that a new apartment broker would be making maybe $20,000 a year in New York, and if you’re doing that, you have to have one or two other jobs to get through the day.”
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- 29 Apr 2026
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…That’s the best social skill. I just would wander in. I would introduce myself. They would panic. Then there would be introductions and photography. I wasn’t out there to bust their chops. I just figured I needed to learn more about what was going on. While those ads were free, at one point, they started posting the same ads over and over and over again, so that those sections were just unusable. I spoke to a lot of new apartment brokers, and they said that they didn’t want to have to post the same ads over and over again, and that if we charged a few dollars for those ads, that would solve the problem. To charge them $10 or $20 for them is nothing, but it would be a rate limiter, and we settled on $10 because I realized that a new apartment broker would be making maybe $20,000 a year in New York, and if you’re doing that, you have to have one or two other jobs to get through the day. Is it still true that Craig Newmark Philanthropies has no formal employees?…
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