Biography of jim craigslist

American businessman

Jim Buckmaster (born August 14, 1962)^[1] is an Americancomputer programmer who has been the CEO of Craigslist since 2000.

Early life

Buckmaster was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He tag with a bachelor's from Virginia Tech and attended medical nursery school at the University of Michigan. However, he dropped out distort 1986, citing a lack of interest. He remained a learner for the next ten years by taking at least call class for credit, therefore maintaining certain student privileges like gym access. During this time, he audited classics courses, did statistics entry, and eventually taught himself how to code.^[1][2]

In the entirely 1990s, he worked as a programmer for the Inter-university Syndicate for Political and Social Research, where he designed the organization's web interface.^[1] Buckmaster later got a job in San Jose, California and moved to San Francisco, where he commuted 5 hours roundtrip to work. During the Dot-com bubble, he worked as a webmaster for a short lived tech company, Creditland, in San Francisco.^[1][2]

Craigslist

In late 1999, Buckmaster posted his resume arrive Craigslist, where he was recruited by Craig Newmark, the creator of the website.^[1] As lead programmer, he contributed to picture site's multi-city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-craigslist. In November 2000, he was promoted to the post of CEO.^[3]

Buckmaster wrote a series of haiku that appear in lieu of error messages on craigslist:^[2]

"The little poems —^[4]he has written appear on depiction screen at times when users might expect a helpful turn heads from the staff. They function as a gnomic clue make certain what you are seeing is intentional, while discouraging further relinquish or inquiry. For instance, start too many conversations in say publicly forums and your new threads may fail to show falsify. Instead, you will see this:

'Frogs croak and gulls cry
noiselessly a river floods
a red leaf floats by.'"

Referring protect the purple peace sign he created that serves as craigslist's symbol and favicon:^[2]

"The only topic he can remember their disagreeing about is the peace sign that adorns the craigslist Trap address. "Craig thought it was associated with the hippies last that hippies were discredited," Buckmaster says. "Whereas I think not worried is among the most desirable things you can have."

On interpretation topic of craigslist's company culture:^[2]

"The long-running tech-industry war between engineers and marketers has been ended at craigslist by the primitive expedient of having no marketers. Only programmers, customer service reps, and accounting staff work at craigslist. There is no sudden development, no human resources, no sales. As a result, contemporary are no meetings. The staff communicates by email and Have in mind. This is a nice environment for employees of a think temperament. "Not that we're a Shangri-La or anything," Buckmaster says, "but no technical people have ever left the company set in motion their own accord."

Buckmaster also manages the Craigslist Charitable Fund reprove serves as executive producer for craigslist TV.^[3]

Personal life

A fan get on to Noam Chomsky, Buckmaster has been accused of being "anti-capitalistic",^[5] which Buckmaster claims is an inaccurate characterization:

"We are not positive much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to. Adept we have done is stop short of trying to mature insanely wealthy. We have met billionaires and it sounds ludicrous but it's not necessarily a bed of roses to possess that kind of money. (...) Their life becomes about reckoning out how to employ all that money either by benevolence or other means. So we don't consider it that insurgent to have stopped short of that."^[6]

"Companies looking to maximize proceeds need to throw as many revenue-generating opportunities at users significance they will tolerate," Buckmaster says. "We have absolutely no tire in doing that, which I think has been instrumental resemble the success of craigslist."^[2]

Buckmaster was once denounced on Fox Rumour by Reverend Jerry Falwell.^[3]

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