Larry Sanger

I like to call myself ex-founder now.

And he's responded that way often in the past, saying that he doesn't really care.

Why he got so upset this time, I'm not sure.

I think it's mostly because the interviewer just repeated the question so many times and he thought he was being disrespected, I suppose.

Well, I suppose that's a matter of opinion, isn't it?

He used to say I was.

He put it in the first three press releases anyway.

Strange.

Sure.

Nine theses, actually, is what you're referring to on LarrySanger.org and actually posted from my user page on Wikipedia.

That's where I first put it.

So the origin story of Wikipedia.

Basically, I knew Jimmy Wales for...

Actually, one of the very first discussion groups I ever got into on the Internet in 1994, I think, was something called the Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy, MDOP, which Jimmy Wales was the owner and moderator of.

And so we got into some debates and so forth.

And he called me up one time after we had an argument or something and tried to smooth things over.

So I thought that was nice.

And later, I was taking a trip across the country and visited him and a mutual friend of ours who also lived in Chicago at the time on my way over to visit my uncle.

And...

we actually got to know each other face to face.