craigslist
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Susan MacTavish Best
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July 2004 (updated)
 
 
 

craig newmark /online community pioneer

a brief bio

Craig is a senior Web-oriented software engineer, with around twenty-five years of experience (including 18 years at IBM), and has become a leader in online community by virtue of running www.craigslist.org for over nine years.

He's one of those guys you hear about who grew up wearing a plastic pocket protector, thick black glasses, (taped together), and watched Star Trek too much, though he's recently reflected that he never joined the A/V club.

Since then, he's compiled extensive experience evangelizing, leading and building, including work at Bank of America, Charles Schwab, and craigslist.org.

craigslist.org philosophical themes say a lot more about Craig:

  • We're about people giving each other a break
  • We're about restoring the human voice to the Internet, reversing the corporate voice and over commercialization
  • We're about providing useful, down-to-earth, common-sense function

    Craig has a very dry sense of humor.

    *find the "serious" version of the above here*

  • a list of craig's past speaking engagements

  • pics of craig and other images are here

  • for professional information, visit www.cnewmark.com