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About Craigslist Stock
Founded
1995
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, US
Total Funding
13.5M
Industries
Software, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics
Craigslist is a supremely popular listings site. Craigslist was founded by [Craig Newmark](/person/craig-newmark) in March 1995 as an email list site for [San Francisco](/location/san-francisco/528f5e3c90d111115d1c2e4ff979d58e) and Bay Area events. In June 2000, it added its second city, [Boston](/location/boston/9898e533996b05148cc5302f60454c02), and then expanded to the major metropolitan cities in August 2000. As of July 2014, Craiglist covers more than 700 local sites in 70 countries. Craiglist.org — note the .org domain suffix — is interesting in that it serves no ads and stresses a non-corporate culture. It has only 40-some employees, all based in San Francisco, and makes money off job ads in 10 cities, as well as brokered apartment listings in [NYC](/location/new-york-city/b3eba2a0b4bd16a51e570da33c1ebb0f).
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Craigslist Management
Leadership team at Craigslist
CTO
Eric Scheide
Founder, Chairman & Customer Service Rep
Craig Newmark
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