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Craig Newmark (Craig Alexander Newmark) was born on 6 December, 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey, U.S., is an American entrepreneur, Craigslist founder. Discover Craig Newmark's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

Popular As Craig Alexander Newmark
Occupation Philanthropist
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 6 December 1952
Birthday 6 December
Birthplace Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Net Worth in 2024 1.3 billion USD (2020)
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1952

Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist.

Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab.

Newmark was born to Joyce and Lee Newmark, a bookkeeper and an insurance and meat salesman, who were Jewish, in 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey.

As a child, Newmark liked science fiction and comic books, and wanted to become a paleontologist.

When Newmark was thirteen, his father died from cancer.

His mother then moved him and his younger brother, Jeff, to Jacob Ford Village.

As a teenager, Newmark attended Morristown High School, where he became interested in physics.

He wore taped-together, black-rimmed glasses and a pocket protector.

In an interview, he described his high school self as "possible nerd patient zero".

During high school, he sang in the school choir, joined the physics club, co-captained the debate team, and was in the honor society.

1971

Newmark graduated high school in 1971.

During his freshman year of college, Newmark began studying computer science.

1975

He earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in computing and information sciences from Case Western Reserve University in 1975 and 1977, respectively.

Prior to establishing Craigslist, Newmark worked as a contract computer programmer for companies such as Bank of America, Sun Microsystems, and others.

His first job out of college was with IBM, where he worked for 17 years as a programmer and systems engineer.

During that time, he lived in Boca Raton, Florida, Detroit, Michigan, and then Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1993

He moved to San Francisco in 1993 after accepting a position with Charles Schwab.

There, a coworker introduced him to the World Wide Web—which at the time was still relatively free of commercials.

1995

In 1995, Newmark started emailing a list of upcoming events to a few friends to "cultivate a bit of community".

Other people asked to be included on the list and as members grew, so did the kinds of information on the list.

1996

Newmark launched craigslist.org in 1996, as a place where people could exchange information, mostly without charge.

It started off as a newsletter about San Francisco events.

1999

He operated it as a hobby while continuing to work as a software engineer until 1999, when he incorporated Craigslist as a private for-profit company.

In her book An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist, Jessa Lingel described the website as "the internet ungentrified".

2000

Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its founding until 2000.

In 2000, Newmark stepped down as chief executive officer and handed off the role to Jim Buckmaster.

Since then, Newmark has not been involved in the "day-to-day operations" of Craigslist.

2004

As far back as 2004, Newmark was using his wealth to support philanthropic causes.

His philanthropic interests include journalism and cybersecurity.

2005

In 2005, Time magazine listed Craig Newmark as one of the 100 people shaping the world.

Newmark serves on the board of several non-profit organizations such as CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Girls Who Code, and Vets in Tech, among others.

He also holds roles on the advisory boards of 18 other non-profits.

2015

He founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies in 2015.

In 2015, he founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies which acts as an umbrella for his other foundations, such as his private charitable foundation, to which he contributed $50 million in 2016 to support military families, voter registration efforts, and women in technology.

2018

As of 2018, he continued to respond to Craigslist customer service inquiries, primarily dealing with spammers and scammers.

In 2018, Newmark's donations totaled $143 million.

2020

The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Newmark 17th out of 50 in its 2020 ranking of individual donors, giving a total of $100 million.

In 2022, Newmark donated $81 million through the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund again ranking in Chronicle of Philanthropy's top 50.

In December 2022, he decided that he plans on giving almost all of his money to charity.

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