671: Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia) - To Get Trust Give Trust, Why Nupedia Failed, Assuming Good Faith, Walking the Walk, Transparency vs. Sharing Everything, Curiosity as the Ultimate Love Language, and Attracting Trustworthy People

Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Go to learningleader.com for show notes of this and all podcast episodes, go to learningleader.com. Now on to tonight's featured leader. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia and one of the most trusted websites on the planet, which started as a side project in 2001, has grown into a global phenomenon. 11,000,000,000 page views every month, edited by nearly 260,000 volunteers, and the only top 10 website run by a nonprofit. Crazy. During our conversation, we discussed Jimmy's desire to give every person on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge. No big deal. Then we go into the seven rules of trust, and then Jimmy shares why it's worth it to lead with trust. You don't have to earn it. You got it, and why that mentality attracts the type of people that you wanna be around. Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy my conversation with Jimmy Wales. This episode is brought to you by my friends at Insight Global. Insight Global is a staffing and professional services company dedicated to being the light to the world around them. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through talent or technical services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world have the hustle and grit to deliver. Hiring can be tough, but hiring the right person can be magic. Visit insightglobal.com/learningleader today to learn more. That's insightglobal.com/learningleader. So let's go back a few years to 1969. You're three years old. Your mom buys you a World Book Encyclopedia from a door to door salesman, and I read that young Jimmy became obsessed with those volumes, and you even updated them. Tell me about this time. You're only three years old, and you're already creating a Wikipedia then? Oh, well, I don't think I did any updating when I was three. I I was, only learning to read when I was four, so, I don't know. Probably I looked at some pictures when I was three, but yeah. Well, I mean, it's it's kind of a joke, really, but the World Book Encyclopedia is quite common to sell to parents. And, of course, if you buy it when your kid's three because you're all excited about future, then in a few years' time some of the articles are out of date. And so they would send out the annual update. So once a year you would get the, you know, the 1974 update, and then they would sometimes update articles. So for example, they had to update the article on the moon because we've had the moon landing. And so then they would give you these stickers and you could go through the, the stickers and it would say, you put it in next to moon, you would put see update in 1974 annual. …