Podcast Episodes featuring Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)

How I Built This with Guy Raz - January 27, 2020 05:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 29.3K ratings
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an online encyclopedia. In 2001, Wales launched Wikipedia, a website where thousands of community members could contribute, edit, and monitor...

Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales

How I Built This with Guy Raz - February 26, 2018 05:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 29.3K ratings
During the dot com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an online encyclopedia. In 2001, Wales launched Wikipedia, a website where thousands of community members could contribute, edit, and monitor...

Jimmy Wales — The Sum of All Human Knowledge

On Being with Krista Tippett - September 08, 2016 19:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
In the 15 years since its inception, Wikipedia has become as much a global community as a business venture — a living organism with a mission statement to make “the sum of all human knowledge available to every person in the world.” And a conversation with co-founder Jimmy Wales — one of the ar...

[Unedited] Jimmy Wales with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - September 08, 2016 19:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia and chair emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Jimmy Wales — The Sum of All Human Knowledge” Find more at onbeing.org.

Jimmy Wales

Desert Island Discs - May 24, 2015 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Kirsty Young's castaway is the internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales. He is best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama and was the eldest child of a grocery store manager and his wife who ran a primary school where Jimmy and his sibling...