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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Origin Story of Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales was inspired by the free software movement to start Wikipedia. The idea of an encyclopedia is that you can collaborate on it, he says. He started out with a short biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Merton. But soon realized there were too many people working on one project at once.
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