Web entrepreneur, and founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, will be speaking in Trinity on Thursday, February 4, Craigslist www. It has become the seventh most popular website in the world, in terms of English language page views. It was founded in by Newmark, a software engineer, who started it out as an email list for friends and co-workers featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay area.
Since the website has expanded exponentially and attracts 47 million visitors per month β more web traffic than eBay or Amazon. Craigslist has no fees for advertising, its sole revenue coming from job postings in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles and paid broker apartment listings in New York City.
Newmark has also been known to put the success of Craigslist down to a sense of community trust. This system powers more then million websites worldwide and in October attracted million visitors. Both Mullenweg and Newmark regularly speak at technology conferences, and will be using the Dublin Web Summit to relay their experience in scaling their companies. Email Address. Editors' Picks.
