Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia on The Leaderonomics Show

Jimmy wales is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia. In 2001, together with Larry Sanger and others, Wales helped launch Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia which enjoyed rapid growth and popularity. As Wikipedia's public profile grew, Wales became the project's promoter and spokesman. Wales is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation in declaring himself the sole founder. Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization which operates Wikipedia. He holds its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a privately-owned, free Web-hosting service, with fellow Wikimedia trustee Angela Beesley.

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[leaderonomicsmedia]

Not an echo and not feeding definitely. The mic picked up background noise of someone else talking.

[Tom Poleski]

what's up with that background noise at 11:07? It sounds like someone's feeding him stuff to say?? or is that an echo?

[ad27ar]

let's all embrace failure!! another great interview from Leaderonomics!

[alvinmalaysia]

interesting insights on how Wikipedia came about. Great questions

[kylearteta]

this is probably the best ever interview done with Jimmy Wales