671: Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia) - To Get Trust Give Trust, Why Nupedia Failed, Assuming Good Faith, Walking the Walk, Transparency vs. Sharing Everything, Curiosity as the Ultimate Love Language, and Attracting Trustworthy People

Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Go to Learningleader.com. For show notes of this and all podcast episodes, go to learningleader.com.

Now on to tonight's featured Leader Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia and one of the most trusted websites on the planet, which started as a side project in 2001, has grown into a global phenomenon. 11 billion page views every month, edited by nearly 260,000 volunteers. and the only top ten website run by a nonprofit. Crazy.

During our conversation, we discuss Jimmy's desire to give every person on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Oh, no big deal. Then we go into the seven rules of trust and then Jimmy shares why it's worth it to lead with trust you don't have to earn it you got it and why that mentality attracts the type of people that you want to be around ladies and gentlemen please enjoy my conversation with Jimmy Wales this episode is brought to you by my friends at Insight Global. Insight Global is a staffing and professional services

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