Jimmy Wales

I mean, some aspects of grad school were like that, you know, there were, you know, stories about people, you know, in order to answer this question, you needed to find this one research paper.

And one guy hid the book it was in in the library, so nobody else could find it.

And it's like, oh, my God, like, what is this backstabbing nightmare?

Like, we can't tolerate this.

And so

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you want you want a healthy culture in order to get anything done.

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, I think one of the rules, I think is rule number three that I always think is really kind of where I begin in thinking is have a good purpose and have a clear purpose.

So with Wikipedia, it's very simple.

You know, we're building a free website.

high quality, neutral encyclopedia.

Like that's the basic purpose of Wikipedia.

And it really, that purpose runs through everything we do, every decision we make, all the policies, all of like what the organization does.

And without that, you end up going in circles.

Like if you don't quite know what you're doing,

And in many cases, you know, like a lot of business, like Airbnb, they had a clear purpose, like they knew what they were doing.

And that really helps a lot.

And then other organizations sometimes lack a clear focus and lack a clear purpose.

I mean, a lot of times, older, bigger companies that end up in like a conglomerate type of structure fail.