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Jimmy Wales might not have the name recognition of Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk, but his invention has been just as influential to the history of the modern internet. He co-founded a website you might have open in another tab on the device you're looking at right now: Wikipedia.

It's a site you visit when you want a quick and mostly accurate overview of anything from political history to celebrity stats, because for the most part you trust the information you find on Wikipedia, right!? Jimmy Wales has a few thoughts on trust, and he's written a new book about it, it's called The Seven Rules of Trust: Why it is Today's Most Essential Superpower.

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