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.
confidence feels
This feels particularly good. It reaffirms the confidence I have in people.
bad ebay human list selling
This is a mistake. eBay bad and robotic, Craig's List human and good. And now on the way to selling out.
distracted prospect
During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.
people provide run sites
Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.
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.
reading political wire
I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.
crooks crime
Crooks are early adopters.