Craig Newmark Is Still Connecting People, Online and Off

He founded one of the great, disruptive websites. Now he supports causes that strengthen communities.

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Craig Newmark is perhaps the world's most successful and famous accidental entrepreneur. The 71-year-old is the founder of Craigslist, the nearly 30-year-old classifieds site that disrupted the newspaper industry and spawned legions of follow-ons (hello, Facebook Marketplace). The site was born of Newmark's desire to showcase the power of the internet to connect people. And he succeeded-big time. The privately held San Francisco company last year generated an estimated $379 million in annual revenue, down from a peak of $1 billion in 2018.

While the entrepreneur turned-philanthropist now devotes much of his energy to supporting causes such as funding education for journalism ("the immune system of democracy") and improving cyber resilience, he hasn't lost his zeal for bringing people together.

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