Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmarkis an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 December 1952
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
jobs technology training
We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.
cutting needs want
I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
causes findings consuming
Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming,
technology what-matters people
What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
exit strategy craigslist
I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
jobs mean reality
I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
helping realizing sometimes
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
persistence people listening
There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
long exit strategy
Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
giving people want
Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.
build good people protect work
I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
careful crowds gets mostly talking wisdom
This wisdom of crowds thing--it may be a cliche, but it's mostly true. What we're talking about here is a democracy, and it works, but you have to be careful before it gets out of control.
culture goodwill manage people stuff trust
I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done,
community events few fun list people useful virtual
I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or more have become a mailing list of 7,500 people and a virtual community of at least 10,000 people.