Craig Newmark
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"Craig Alexander Newmark" is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist.

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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Crooks are early adopters.

This is a mistake. eBay bad and robotic, Craig's List human and good. And now on the way to selling out.

All of a sudden one of my guys noticed they were doing this, ... And then after a little reflection, my team started thinking 'how can we do a better job of this?'

I remember and know the Bill of Rights. But my instincts tell me to be helpful, and (that attitude) is surprising to a lot of cops who deal with Internet crimes.

I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done.

This feels particularly good. It reaffirms the confidence I have in people.

We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.

People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.

I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or more have become a mailing list of 7,500 people and a virtual community of at least 10,000 people.

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.