A Day in the Life of Craig Newmark

Despite building possibly the most influential and essential community and commerce website, Craig Newmark of craigslist.org isn’t living the high life. At the first Zócalo/New America Foundation event in San Francisco, held at the Golden Gate Room in the Fort Mason Center, Newmark told the capacity crowd that he lives “pretty simply with a few luxuries,” including “a pretty good shower” and “all the gadgets I want.” With characteristic brevity and plain-talk, Newmark, who called himself the Forrest Gump of the Internet, said he does “OK, and that works out …