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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 55 - Jimmy Wales: The Man Who Created Wikipedia

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Type almost anything into Google and you'll notice that often the first or second search result is a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia has become the world's encyclopedia. It's written collaboratively by the people who use it, and because of that, it...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altitor show on the Stansbury radio network.

0:20.5

So Jimmy Wells founder of Wikipedia, you just came up here from the UN and I have to ask

0:27.3

what were you doing at the UN?

0:29.0

Well this morning I just popped by a session.

0:31.5

It was a session of women leaders.

0:35.3

Sheree Blair gave a speech.

0:36.7

It was a lot of first ladies mainly from Africa and you.

0:40.9

And you.

0:41.9

Well, it was a large electoral.

0:43.9

I sat in the back and trying to be inconspicuous and listen in.

0:46.6

Why did you go to that?

0:48.3

Well, I just they invited me and it looked like an interesting session.

0:51.9

And the one in particular that was interested in is a.

0:57.3

Do you want to some bad plug for them, but I liked their project.

1:00.8

No mother's die.

1:02.3

I think that's what it's called.

1:03.1

No mother's died out of work.

1:04.0

That's a that's a worthy cause.

1:05.6

It sounds like no one could disagree with that.

1:08.0

Journal mortality, right?

1:08.9

It's pretty universally.

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