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Craig Newmark

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666 total appearances

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I'm passionate about helping regular people protect what needs to be protected. I'm not involved in the industry directly and not with any specific companies. I think I would like to do more for the cybersecurity industry in Israel, but I just can't figure out how to get started.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I'm passionate about helping regular people protect what needs to be protected. I'm not involved in the industry directly and not with any specific companies. I think I would like to do more for the cybersecurity industry in Israel, but I just can't figure out how to get started.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

decide what matters to them, both professionally and in personal life. The Tikhon Olam thing really works for me. The idea is that there are some real things one can do to help repair the world. In my case, I've now focused on a few areas. I used to do a lot more, but again, it's now cyber vets and military families. And that works. It works for the country.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

decide what matters to them, both professionally and in personal life. The Tikhon Olam thing really works for me. The idea is that there are some real things one can do to help repair the world. In my case, I've now focused on a few areas. I used to do a lot more, but again, it's now cyber vets and military families. And that works. It works for the country.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Now and then I'll do other indulgences like I actually really do support pigeon rescue. That's because I love birds and I have a sense of humor. I'm now negotiating for another photo op for a pigeon rescue group. I'm afraid I'll be very much indulging my sense of humor there.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Now and then I'll do other indulgences like I actually really do support pigeon rescue. That's because I love birds and I have a sense of humor. I'm now negotiating for another photo op for a pigeon rescue group. I'm afraid I'll be very much indulging my sense of humor there.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

But that's all I know about because in my professional life, any of my success has been accidentally being in the right time and place, making me the Forrest Gump of the internet. And that works out.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

But that's all I know about because in my professional life, any of my success has been accidentally being in the right time and place, making me the Forrest Gump of the internet. And that works out.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I seem to be drawn to some areas when they start making sense to me for vets and military families. The only theory I have is that I grew up, I was in high school during the Vietnam War, and I saw returning soldiers being treated very badly, you know, and that was wrong. I was very naive back then, didn't understand the war, but I could see people being treated really unfairly. That led to that.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I seem to be drawn to some areas when they start making sense to me for vets and military families. The only theory I have is that I grew up, I was in high school during the Vietnam War, and I saw returning soldiers being treated very badly, you know, and that was wrong. I was very naive back then, didn't understand the war, but I could see people being treated really unfairly. That led to that.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

My early work in cybersecurity predisposed me to that. And then when I saw the need as a matter of protecting the country, that clicked in. I've done some other stuff too with very varying degrees of success. I think I can say that my existing efforts for cyber vets and military families Those are succeeding and they will succeed even more over the next decade or two, hopefully.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

My early work in cybersecurity predisposed me to that. And then when I saw the need as a matter of protecting the country, that clicked in. I've done some other stuff too with very varying degrees of success. I think I can say that my existing efforts for cyber vets and military families Those are succeeding and they will succeed even more over the next decade or two, hopefully.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

So that winds up pretty good. And I feel that I will have a stunning success with Pigeon Rescue.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

So that winds up pretty good. And I feel that I will have a stunning success with Pigeon Rescue.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

You start by treating people like you want to be treated. And a lot flows from that, including good customer service or the best you can possibly provide given your business model. And if you stick with that, that's pretty good.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

You start by treating people like you want to be treated. And a lot flows from that, including good customer service or the best you can possibly provide given your business model. And if you stick with that, that's pretty good.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I appreciate it, but it's not so much humbleness. It's just a sense of what's real. Keeping control of your realness is a really big thing. But like I say, a nerd's got to do what a nerd's got to do.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

I appreciate it, but it's not so much humbleness. It's just a sense of what's real. Keeping control of your realness is a really big thing. But like I say, a nerd's got to do what a nerd's got to do.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark: How I Transformed a Simple Email List Into a Billion-Dollar Business | E78

Thanks. I appreciate it.