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In 2005, San Francisco Craigslist's men seeking men section was attributed to facilitating sexual encounters and was the second most common correlation to syphilis infections. The company has been pressured by San Francisco Department of Public Health officials, prompting Jim Buckmaster to state that the site has a very small staff and that the ...
Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its ...
With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, [25] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) [26] at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the ...
Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. is an American company that operates a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. Nextdoor launched in the United States in October 2011, [3] and is available in 11 countries as of May 2023. [4]
Virginia Tech ( BS) University of Michigan (no degree) Occupation (s) Computer programmer, CEO of craigslist. Years active. 2000-present. Jim Buckmaster (born August 14, 1962) [1] is an American computer programmer who has been the CEO of Craigslist since 2000.
The Bay Area consists of nine counties ( Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco. Its southern base is Los Altos, Mountain View, in Santa Clara County, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale and Los Altos.
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.