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
technology simple thinking
We think of Craigslist as a form of Social Media.We provide a simple service that is mostly free and we leave money in the community, instead of taking it away. Shared values, nothing fancy, treating people like we want to be treated. 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.
thinking nerd littles
I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
running thinking trying
We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.
business real thinking
My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium.. as everyone's printing press.. is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.
thinking milestone
Milestones aren't what I think about much,
guys job noticed sudden team thinking
All of a sudden one of my guys noticed they were doing this, ... And then after a little reflection, my team started thinking 'how can we do a better job of this?'
arts cool list simple technology
I started a simple list of what I thought were cool events, arts and technology stuff.
people provide run sites
Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.
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,
check maybe model models publish
The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
experience matter similar
We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.
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.
conference culture internet means people regarding talking
It's a pretty important conference regarding Internet trends, because people are talking a lot about what's really happening. Not just the technology, but what it means for our culture in general.
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.