Jimmy Wales

We want to be successful.

And that clarifies a lot of questions.

Whereas in a nonprofit, it's like, oh, well, we're trying to share free knowledge with the world.

But there's a lot of different ways to do that.

And it gets a little more complicated, even though I do think we've got a good purpose and all that.

It still is often quite complicated.

But every time you can come together on a simple purpose, then you begin to be able to make better decisions.

But also you begin to be trustworthy.

Like people know what you're going to do.

You're predictable as a company.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I would say a little bit of yes and no.

So what I always say about it is we were never as bad as they thought we were, and we aren't as good as they think we are.

So Wikipedia has always had problems.

We've always had errors.

Part of that is just it's really hard to do good quality reference work.

You're always going to have something that's not quite right.

We always wanted to be accurate.

In the early days, one of the things that was really fun about the early days is you could be the first person to type Paris is a city in France and hit save.