Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist. Read full biography of Craig Newmark →
Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support.... →
Milestones aren't what I think about much.
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... →
Realize that you can't make everyone happy.
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... →
Do something real, and keep it simple.
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how... →
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... →
I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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... →
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... →
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... →