Craig Newmark

Entrepreneur

Birthday December 6, 1952

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Morristown, NJ

Age 71 years old

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About

Founder of Craigslist who took the classifieds out of the newspaper and put them on the web.

Before Fame

He graduated Case Western Reserve University with a Master's degree in Science.

Trivia

He focused on Craigslist's customer service following the site's success, concerning himself especially with spammers and scammers.

Family Life

His father died not long after his bar mitzvah, leaving his mother Joyce to raise him and his brother on her own.

Associated With

He and Jimmy Wales ran their websites as non-profit charities.