Jimmy Wales: What Happens When Nobody Trusts Anybody?

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Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Trust, and AI’s Disruptive Future This week's guest, Jimmy Wales, discusses how Wikipedia grew from an experimental, volunteer-edited side project spun out of the failed top-down Nupedia, from early “Hello, world” days and primitive accounts to organic traffic and press, and now a nonprofit with about 650 staff supporting tech, operations, fundraising, legal, and trust-and-safety while volunteers govern content. Jimmy explains why he wrote a book on trust amid documented declines in trust in institutions, contrasting Wikipedia’s imperfect but “honest” reputation and open editing model, and argues trust fundamentals are timeless, advising young workers to build trust through reliability and teamwork while rejecting toxic workplaces.

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