On Trust with Jimmy Wales

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, discussing trust and collaboration in the digital age.

Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message! Welcome to the Where Shall We Meet podcast. Our guest this week is Jimmy Wales. He is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that launched in 2001, creating a radically collaborative model that allows anyone to contribute to and edit what has become the world’s largest free encyclopedia. Born in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1966, Wales studied finance before working in Chicago as a tra...

People in this episode

Hosts: Omid Ashtari, Natascha McElhone

Guest: Jimmy Wales

Topics covered

• trust
• internet entrepreneurship
• collaboration
• Wikipedia
• free knowledge

Keywords

• trust
• Wikipedia
• internet
• entrepreneurship
• collaboration
• free encyclopedia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikipedia

Places: Huntsville, Alabama

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