We've Launched With No Ads and No Pay Wall

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Every post, or nearly every post, is collaboratively editable. We've launched with no ads and no pay wall. So i've a series of bad business decisions tasal got my career so far. The model i learned from and created with wickipedia is to say, look, pay for it if you want to. There is a place. We do ask you to pay. And what i want people to think about is, what does that do to our incentives?

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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