What's the Best Decision You've Ever Made?

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What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given? I was very ative as a child, and if somebody said something that hurt my feelings, i would be very upset. So i think the best decision i've ever made is put wihipedia into the non profit a structure. What does a billion hits a month feel like? It's an amazing thing. Every a month we see one point five billion devicesnd that's probably 607 hundred million people every month. Now it's something people rely on whenever they want to know something.

Chris Hirst, Global CEO of advertising group Havas Creative, cuts through the bullshit and gets to the heart of modern leadership in this straight-talking podcast brought to you by Intelligence Squared. In this episode Chris Hirst speaks to the internet pioneer and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who is perhaps the most famous silicon-valley entrepreneur to not become a billionaire. Wikipedia has changed how knowledge is accessed across the world, with 1.5 billion devices accessing the site every month. Jimmy Wales is also founder of the Wikimedia Foundation and co-founder of Wikia, a privately owned free web hosting service he set up in 2004. In 2019 he founded WT.Social, a microblogging site pitched as a 'non-toxic social network...where advertisers don't call the shots'. The service contains no advertisements and runs off donations. To subscribe click here: https://pod.link/1533418365

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