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Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Tells Young Entrepreneurs ‘Fail Faster’

by | May 12, 2016

FOUNDER SHARES INSIGHTS FOR SUCCESS WITH DALLAS BUSINESS LEADERS

When Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales set out to bring his idea for a free online encyclopedia to life, there wasn’t a collaborative model to follow.

“We were Web 2.0 before anybody coined the term Web 2.0,” Wales said.

Fifteen years later, Wikipedia contains more than 36 million articles in 288 languages created collectively by volunteers around the world....

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