Jimmy Wales

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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.

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But there is something that you all share.
And there is an objective, which is we need to be profitable.
Like the company has to be sustainable.
You know, 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.
Inside an organization, you have to have a lot of trust.
Like, what is our strategy?
Because uncertainty is worse in most cases than making a decision that's slightly suboptimal, you know, like, like completely whipsawing back and forth.
So what are the principles that you need, you know, in order to build trust?
Trust between maybe rank and file and the management.
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