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Project Description: Wikipedia

Topic:  Wikipedia: A Business Model that should have Flopped A site that saved many of us during that stressful essay, trying to understand something new in an organized way or just to read about the personal lives of our favorite celebrities. Wikipedia is a " free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation."  Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded the company in January 2001, at first intended to be profitable like many sites. However, while being the fifth most visited site online, it still makes no money and relies on fundraising. I was interested in doing this topic because I recently listened to a podcast named How I Built This with Guy Raz, which interviewed Jimmy Wales about how we founded Wiki. My approach would be why Wales choose this business model, how effective this model was, the success of Wikipedia, possibly creating a scenario of being profitable and comparing how this business model diffe...

Serial Podcast

Season 3 of the Serial Podcast is premiering September 20th! If you haven't heard the first season, you are missing out something great in life! Thank me later! https://serialpodcast.org/ Season one: https://serialpodcast.org/season-one

Syed Husain: CIS 3810 First Blog

This is the first blog to go live. Who you got for UFC 229? McGregor or Khabib?