Jimmy Wales

speaker

6,110 appearances 12 recordings 11 series first heard Jun 2023 last heard 21 Jun

Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 11 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Action Catalyst · The Seven Rules of Trust, with Jimmy Wales | (Leadership, Internet, Entrepreneurship, Media) · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

So as we started to grow, there were a lot of challenges there and becoming more professional and so forth.

And fortunately, we made it through all that and everything's good today.

I mean, yeah, it's a good question.

I mean, I probably I'll just point to myself like I had to learn that I'm not a good manager.

That's actually really important.

And it's something that founders often struggle with.

I found it out pretty quickly.

I mean, my management style is basically this is awesome.

Let's do this.

Everybody go do some good stuff.

Right.

Not really that great.

Not not a very good matter.

Very easy boss to work for, but not not the structure that a lot of people need.

I do think that a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of founders, you know, a lot of successful founders have done a good job of this.

I would say, for example, the Google founders, they brought in Eric Schmidt at a crucial moment because they realized, like, we're engineers and geeks.

And later, Larry did become... Larry Page became CEO, but he was much older and more mature and had... By that time, he had worked in a big organization and had learned a lot about how to do it.

So...

I think there's a lot of that sort of thing that is really important.

And I think this is where the book, The Seven Rules of Trust, a big part of the book is thinking about, okay, inside an organization, you have to have a lot of trust.

Showing 2021–2040 of 6,110 · page 102 of 306