Wikipedia, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 101Jimmy Wales 27Randy Hetrick 2John Foley 2Steven Udvar-Hazy 1Otis Chandler 1Laura Modi 1Craig Newmark 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wikipedia comes up
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 29:20 Laura Modi Look, even going back then, this was me going to Wikipedia to learn this,
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 53:41 Craig Newmark My two focus areas in the press now are the, uh, CUNY J School, in part because CUNY is about giving people opportunity who never got much opportunity, and I support Wikipedia, which is where facts go to live.
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 28:46 Steven Udvar-Hazy They look on Wikipedia.
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
Roblox: David Baszucki
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 40:20 Otis Chandler They could actually go edit the title of the book and add a cover if it was missing, and they had full power, just like Wikipedia.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
How I Built Resilience: Live with John Foley
- ▶ 16:08 John Foley Whatever comes up in anything, whether it's in his sweet spot or outside of his sweet spot, he will research it on Wikipedia and he'll come back to the next day with some ideas and we'll test them and, you
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)
- ▶ 0:19 Guy Raz Anyway, chances are, if you grab your phone and type in any of those questions, the answers will come up on Wikipedia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:04 Guy Raz Wikipedia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:09 Jimmy Wales But, I mean, keep in mind that this was also where we started, um, Newpedia, the predecessor to Wikipedia.
- ▶ 14:21 Jimmy Wales And I made the decision to put it up at the domain name wikipedia.com rather than keep it on Newpedia, because we weren't really sure, like, we had a lot of academics and a lot of very serious people on the mailing list, and this seemed a… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:56 Guy Raz So, in the early days, Jimmy Wales was able to get Wikipedia up and running, and he was funding it with money from his first internet startup, Bomus. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Jimmy Wales And so a lot of small donors, and that, of course, today is the model for Wikipedia, that people who believe in Wikipedia, who think it's useful in their lives, say, hey, I should chip in. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:55 Guy Raz I mean, this has happened throughout human history, but now because there is so much information available, it's sometimes difficult for people to discern what's real and what's not, and I, and I wonder whether one of the challenges with… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:54 Guy Raz How many, do you know how many Wikipedia pages there are today in English, for example? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 Guy Raz When you think about this thing that you built and your role in the history of the internet, how much of, of the success of Wikipedia do you think is because of your brilliance and your hard work, and how much do you think is simply… 9 times in the scene
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
- ▶ 33:59 John Foley So, so we, uh, what I was going to say is we, we would on Wikipedia research, okay, television production camera, and you'd see here's the really expensive one, here's the medium one,
TRX: Randy Hetrick (2018)
- ▶ 29:06 Randy Hetrick And, you know, Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge defines Mojo as magical powers.
Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
- ▶ 0:02 Guy Raz What was the, um, what's the first Wikipedia entry?
- ▶ 1:08 Guy Raz So number one, of course, is Google, and then comes YouTube, and then Facebook, and then Baidu, which is China's biggest search engine, and finally coming in at number five, Wikipedia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:40 Jimmy Wales But I mean, keep in mind that this was also where we started, um, Newpedia, the predecessor to Wikipedia.
- ▶ 13:53 Jimmy Wales And I made the decision to put it up at the domain name wikipedia.com rather than keep it on Newpedia, because we weren't really sure, like, we had a lot of academics and a lot of very serious people on the mailing list, and this seemed a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:25 Guy Raz What was the, um, what was the first Wikipedia entry? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Guy Raz In just a minute, when Jimmy Wales was faced with the question of how Wikipedia was going to make money, he decided that it wasn't.
- ▶ 17:34 Guy Raz So, in the early days, Jimmy Wales was able to get Wikipedia up and running, and he was funding it with money from his first internet startup, Bomus. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 Guy Raz You decide, I guess, around 2003 to basically create a non-profit organization to run Wikipedia. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 Jimmy Wales We really want to support this, and so a lot of small donors, and that, of course, today is the model for Wikipedia, that people who believe in Wikipedia, who think it's useful in their lives, say, hey, I should chip in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Guy Raz When did you realize that Wikipedia was becoming really big, like part of the 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 Guy Raz I mean, this has happened throughout human history, but now because there is so much information available, it's sometimes difficult for people to discern what's real and what's not, and I, and I wonder whether one of the challenges with… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:31 Guy Raz How, how many, do you know how many Wikipedia pages there are today in English, for example? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 Guy Raz Do you, do you know what the revenue is, like annual revenue for Wikipedia from donations? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:40 Guy Raz When you think about this thing that you built and your role in the history of the internet, how much of, of the success of Wikipedia do you think is because of your brilliance and your hard work, and how much do you think is simply… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:08 Guy Raz Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. 3 times in the scene
TRX: Randy Hetrick
- ▶ 29:17 Randy Hetrick And, you know, Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge defines mojo as magical powers.