Jimmy Wales
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6,110 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jun 2023
last heard 21 Jun
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I mean, in the early days, I would buy new servers because the site was starting to feel a little slow and then we would get new servers and we would have a traffic growth
Because the site was more responsive, you know, and that was that was our big constraint was getting the technology in order for the growth.
And that actually led to, you know, when I realized, like, you know, I'm funding this out of my little tiny company.
And like, this isn't like we got to find a way.
And so put it into the nonprofit and did our first fundraiser.
And we needed to buy.
some servers.
We wanted to buy eight servers and we were hoping to raise $20,000 in one month's time.
And we ended up with 30,000 in about two weeks time.
So it was a big success.
And so we were able to buy the servers and have a little money left over to buy some other stuff.
But that was a big moment of relief because before then I was like, I don't know how we're going to keep funding this.
And maybe we have to put ads on and, you know, I don't really want to, but like,
And so suddenly it was like, oh, actually, this could work like this volunteer model and donation based.
Maybe this is going to work.
You know, that was exciting.
And I would say like the the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the charity that I set up that owns and operates the site.
It obviously also has had a lot of growth over the years.
And I would say there was a period of time when.
The growth of the website and the growth of the community was very successful, but the Wikimedia Foundation had a lot of growing pains.
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