This Saturday, the Castilleja School, an all-girls' college-prep academy in Palo Alto, has invited Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, Google fashionista Marissa Mayer, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to a symposium on leadership. What, exactly, does Wales propose to teach, I wonder?
How to have a failed career as an options trader? How to build a porn site? How to launch, inadvertently, the world's seventh most popular website and yet avoid making any money on it? How to hire a convicted felon as chief operating officer of a nonprofit? How not to build a Google-killing search engine? How to cheat on one's spouse, get a divorce, and neglect one's seven-year-old daughter? These topics would be fit additions to the sum of all human knowledge, and yet I doubt Wales will address them.












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I dunno what he will say but I will ask this: Why do the bottoms (panties or bikini bottoms?) on those two chicks (yeah, chicks) he hired look like something out of the eighties. Was the Wiki around back then?
Harry "have an eye for all things panty" Wang
I'm just going along to collect some digits. Scoble and I need a new entourage.
BTW, anyone know where to get some decent fake IDs?
I believe Wales' presentation is titled "How to optimize your Wikipedia presence without leaving your knees."
Owen, man. That's a hell of a second paragraph you put together there. Get some bam!/pow! comic images to throw into to the text next time.
Rachel, we know why he dumped you, he likes 'em young.
Maybe ... but that picture was taken more than 10 years ago ... when Jimbo was quite the "troll" he is now.
WTF? In my experience, Jimmy's keen on women in leadership - as long as they're in agreement with everything he says, do what he tells them, and don't argue with him. Just nod, smile, kiss ass and look purty. As a woman in leadership myself, perhaps I could enlighten the young ladies on how to handle guys like Jimmy Wales. That might prove to be the more useful seminar. I certainly could have used one, rather than learning by trial and error.
Again, nothing I've said here is anything that I haven't said to Jimmy's face at least once.
Dang that school is going to be pissed after some one emails this story to them.
Jimmy has a rockier relationship with strong, independent women than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does with his Bic razor and deodorant stick.
@Rachel Marsden: LMFAO, Twice!!!
I wonder if he told the girls about how "High touch" wikipedia is and had them touch his wiki-stiki
I'm still not sure how I went almost straight from a 2-year relationship dating a British military trained expert in deadly force...to dating an expert in deadly farce.
@Rachel Marsden: I find that's normally due to rebounding...maybe it was just too early to meet someone else.
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