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Craig Newmark
Founder of Craig Newmark Philanthropies
New York, New York
Overview
Craig Newmark is the founder of Craig Newmark Philanthropies and currently serves as its Chief Social Responsibility Officer, with a significant background in customer service and founding craigslist. He has made impactful grants to organizations such as the Bob Woodruff Foundation and VetsInTech, showcasing a commitment to philanthropy and supporting veterans through his work.
Newmark's career highlights include founding craigslist, a widely-used platform, and his philanthropic efforts through Craig Newmark Philanthropies, investing in initiatives like the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and Factmata.
Work Experience
founder & CSR
2018 - Current
Founder
2015 - 2021
customer service rep and founder
1995 - 2018
retired
CEO
1999 - 2000
I was briefly CEO until informed that as a manager, I kinda suck.
Craigslist is a classified advertisements website for jobs, personals, for sale and wanted items, services, résumés, and discussion forums.
Raised $13,500,000.00 from eBay.
founder
2011 - 2016
using technology to give the voiceless a real voice and the powerless real power.
Nerd-in-Residence
2013 - 2014
Software engineer
1997 - 1998
development of advanced multi-applet Java-based user interfaces, using JDK 1.0.2/1.1 portable screen components * significant contributions to areas including: security, seamless setup and maintenance environments
Software engineer
1996 - 1997
wrote site navigation applet for major SF-based oil company. (Java, JavaScript) * contributed significantly to workflow system design for major video gaming firm. (Netscape LiveWire)
Software engineer
1996 - 1997
* designed and implemented three intranet applications for LSI Logic: events calendar, classified ads, HR training schedule. (Netscape Enterprise Server, LiveWire server and client side JavaScript, Oracle, Perl, Solaris, NT) * prototyped and stress tested a billing-delivery related system for Intuit, participated in the design, solved security issues. (Java, JDBC, Jeeves, Oracle, Access, WebLogic, redeveloped web application stress tester, Solaris, NT) * NetGuide Live
Software engineer
1995 - 1996
contributed extensively to development and deployment of Web and AOL based HomeBanking * performed systems integration of Web and legacy systems * developed large testing environment (legacy system simulator). (Perl, TCP/IP, Solaris, NT) * wrote of Web application stress tool, simulating an arbitrary number of synthetic browsers making HTTP requests to a specified server. (Java, HTTP, Netscape Commerce Server, Solaris, NT) * Xircom
Bank of America Neighborhood Builders is a signature philanthropic program that advances economic mobility and nonprofit leadership.
programmer
1996 - 1996
wrote Java systems administration code
Software engineer
1993 - 1995
evangelized the Internet