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Meet Craig ‘Craigslist’ Newmark, the self-professed ‘nerd’ who built a $1 billion online listing empire and donated $20 million to a media company that’s now facing a massive editorial exodus

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Wikimedia Commons Craig Newmark is the founder of classified ads website Craigslist. Newmark started the site as an email newsletter called "San Francisco Events." Newmark only led the company for five years — he stepped down as CEO in 2000 and has dedicated his time to philanthropy ever since. Most recently, tech publication The Markup […]

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