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Craig Newmark
Founder
Craig's List
Craig Newmark is a senior Web-oriented software engineer, with around twenty-five years of experience, and has become a leader in online community by virtue of running www.craigslist.org for over eight years.
Newmark's one of those guys you hear about who grew up wearing a plastic pocket protector, thick black glasses, (taped together), and watched Star Trek too much, though he's recently reflected that he never joined the A/V club. Since then, he's compiled extensive experience evangelizing, leading and building, including work at Bank of America, Charles Schwab, and craigslist.org.
craigslist.org philosophical themes say a lot more about Craig:
We're about people giving each other a break
We're about restoring the human voice to the Internet, reversing the corporate voice and over commercialization
We're about providing useful, down-to-earth, common-sense function