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A couple of days before I interviewed Jimmy Wales about how he built Wikipedia, the New York Times ran an article that generated some controversy about how Jimmy Wales might have saved a life.

So I asked him about it. Here’s the audio and transcript of his response.

I got a few interesting questions about my work at Mixergy from Kareem Mayan (the digital nomad) and Kurt Daradics (co-founder of Freedom Speaks).

Thought you might want to see the answers, so I’m posting them publicly.

How did Jimmy Wales get the world to help him write an encyclopedia? And what could YOU learn from his experiences to help you build a business that leaves a legacy? I invited Jimmy to Mixergy and I asked him to talk about the business side of his non-profit, Wikipedia.  He told us how the [...]

This is the story of a guy who plugged a video camera into his computer and made himself into an internet celebrity. Then he parlayed that fame into appearances on major TV shows and ownership stakes in several internet companies.

Gary Vaynerchuk came to Mixergy and talk about how he launched and grew Wine Library TV, his high-octane, online show about wine.

Want to see the notes I made to prepare for my interview with Gary? Here it is.

If you think it’s useful, maybe I’ll post the notes I make for future interviews.

In a world where it’s assumed that no one pays for anything online, how does Threadless get people to buy over a million tshirts a year? What can YOU learn from how they did it?

That’s what I invited Threadless’s Jeffrey Kalmikoff to teach.