Craigslist's founder gave away half a billion, from a site that barely charges (independent.co.uk)
Craig Newmark has directed about half a billion dollars to charity, much of it to military veterans and cybersecurity defense. The puzzle the thread fixated on: how does Craigslist make that kind of money when it charges only for job and a few other postings, and runs almost no ads?
A former eBay/PayPal security engineer who once saw its setup described the infrastructure as almost trivially simple. The harder pushback came on philanthropy itself: two decades in, what has billionaire giving actually changed?
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