aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Rumormonger: Newmark quit? Nope.
The AJC article about Mayor Shirley Franklin singling out Craigslist for promoting child prostitution in Atlanta quoted Susan MacTavish Best, Craigslist spokeswoman and girlfriend of CEO Jim Buckmaster, as saying that Craig Newmark “is no longer is involved in the company’s daily affairs.”
I read that and thought nothing of it.
Valleywag dug a little deeper and found that Newmark no longer appears on the management page though he was listed there a week ago, then wondered, had he quit?
In a couple of conversations on phone and Facebook, Newmark said he was still working at the company as a “customer service representative.” He had no explanation for Best’s comments about his lack of involvement in the company’s “daily affairs”—“customer service” seeming to be one of those “daily affairs” companies must deal with—save to say that she told him she didn’t make the comments attributed to her by the Journal-Constitution, and that he’s still engaged in “heavy customer service” every day. As to his disappearance from the Craigslist management page, Newmark didn’t know why it had been recently changed to remove him, but pointed out that the updated page now matched his claims, put forward for years, not to be involved in the company’s management.
