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List Guy Craig Branches Out

While eponymous site battles eBay, Newmark turns to public service, Obama campaign

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 12, 2008 10:40 AM CDT

(Newser) – Everyone knows Craigslist, but Craig himself is getting a little restless. Craig Newmark is spending more time and money on outside projects, the New York Times reports, even with his company in a high-profile tiff with eBay. Newmark, 55, says he spends half his time on customer-service issues, the other half on public-service projects and causes like Barack Obama's campaign.

Though the newspaper industry blames Craigslist for killing print classified advertising, Newmark, behind a host of investigative-journalism efforts, calls that "an urban myth." He knows his site could have made him rich—and doesn’t care. “We know these guys in Google and the eBay guys,” he said, “and they are not any happier than anyone else. A lot of money is a burden.”

Newmark stands in front of his office in this file photo. (Getty Images)

Craig Newmark, founder of Craig's List, arrives at the Time 100 gala, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at the Time Warner Center in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)

Craig Newmark, founder of the classified ads Web site craigslist, speaks to a club on February 24, 2005, in Palo Alto, California. (KRT Photos)

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