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
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?'
jobs people needs
People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.
jobs business differences
I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
jobs ideas news
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
jobs technology training
We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.
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.
biggest good matters others shared
Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.
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,
experience matter similar
We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.
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.
distracted prospect
During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.
confidence feels
This feels particularly good. It reaffirms the confidence I have in people.
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.