Jimmy Wales
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I don't know.
How does it feel to you?
Like, how does it feel to all of us?
Like, that's not a thing.
How does it feel to not be a billionaire?
So, you know, yeah, no, we're a funny fish.
And actually, I think our business model, which is donations and not we're not funded by a few wealthy donors.
We're not funded by governments.
We're funded by the small donors.
Got my five bucks a month rolling in.
Yeah, it's massive.
And it's really important.
Because it gives us intellectual independence.
The community has intellectual independence.
Nobody can lean on us and go, oh, right.
Well, this article, you know, like I'm your biggest donor and this article, I don't care for it.
Then if we were financially under the thumb, that would be bad.
You know, sometimes people say, ah.
You know, like, why don't you get, you know, Google and Facebook and why don't those guys pay for it?
What could go wrong?