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🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Internet and technology entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, is the founder of Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc. including its entertainment media brand, Fandom. Jimmy was named in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ for his role in creating Wikipedia. We talk all things fem tech, including parenting our girls, access to informational technology, impacting the world, hustling at Davos as YGLs and yes...we say the word vagina!
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0:00.0 | If the expectation is, in order to build a successful company, you need to basically drop everything, sleep under your desk, work 100 hours a week and do nothing else and don't have a life, you cut out a huge number of people who are incredibly talented and who have great ideas. |
0:15.8 | Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the body agency, and on this show, we talk about |
0:23.1 | the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive. Ladies out there, |
0:29.9 | our time is now. Let's get to it. So excited for our next guest, the one and only, Jimmy Wales. You might know him as the founder |
0:40.6 | of Wikipedia. I know him as my friend. We actually are young global leaders together at the |
0:46.9 | World Economic Forum, sat in the same class and have traveled the world. I've seen him in action. |
0:53.1 | He's an incredible tech entrepreneur and a |
0:56.1 | friend and a parent and just a regular good old guy. We delve into Femtech, sex ed on the internet, |
1:03.9 | being a parent, what we need for our girls, and what it means to be Jimmy Wales. |
1:10.8 | Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Wales. |
1:12.7 | Kate Roberts. |
1:14.4 | It's so good to have you. |
1:17.2 | Let's cast our minds back. |
1:20.8 | Gosh, 15 years ago, something like that, on how we met. |
1:25.8 | Because it's a good story. |
1:27.7 | And little did I know that you were one of the most influential people in the world in tech. |
1:34.3 | Do you remember how we met? |
1:36.4 | Yeah, we were on a plane in China, and we were the only two people on the plane who were not Chinese. |
1:46.9 | And I thought, oh, we're probably going to the same place. So I tried to introduce myself. You basically blew me off. |
1:52.3 | I was like, who's this white man bugging me? |
1:56.3 | Exactly. And then later, I don't know, you gave me a Tic Tac. I did. An apology. |
2:01.0 | I did. And, you know, I will apologize a TikTok. I did. An apology. I did. |
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