Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds. 
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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 content on just about anything. Today the non-profit has stayed true to its open source roots and is one of the ten most visited websites in the world. PLUS in our post-script 'How You Built That' we check bac

Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)

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