An Evening with Jimmy Wales

Schedule

Tue Nov 04 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:15 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar | Los Angeles, CA

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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:


Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 8pm

*Virtual event airs on November 11 at 6pm PT/9pm ET


An Evening with Jimmy Wales

discussing his book, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last."

*interviewer to be added


TICKETS:

  • $50 General Admission ticket + signed copy of the book
  • $25 General Admisison tickets
  • Additional signed books available for purchase at event
  • Face masks recommended
  • The virtual version of this event airs on November 11, 2025, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days.
  • Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)
  • ASL interpreter provided upon request.
  • Free parking at the venue

From the founder of Wikipedia, a sweeping reflection on the global crisis of credibility and knowledge, revealing “the rules of trust” that transformed Wikipedia from a scrappy experiment into a global utility used by billions of people—and how those rules can help others build things that last..Jimmy Wales is an internet entrepreneur who is best known as the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, he was also acknowledged by the World Economic Forum as one of the top 250 leaders across the world for his professional accomplishments, his commitment to society, and his potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. Born in Huntsville, Alabama, he lives with his family in London..“Trust is a feeling. We can’t ‘convince’ someone to trust, they have to feel it. Sadly, we now live in a world in which it’s often hard to know who or what we can trust. Where some of the biggest online companies are trying to allow for public regulation of their content, only to significantly harm their trustworthiness, Wikipedia is the exception. What does Wikipedia know that others don’t and how can more companies adopt their practices to make our digital world safer and, well, more trustworthy? Thank you to Jimmy Wales for founding Wikipedia and now, for the first time, telling us how he did it!”—Simon Sinek, New York Times bestselling author of Start with Why and The Infinite Game, and host of the podcast A Bit of Optimism..From the beginning, people predicted Wikipedia’s demise. Instead, this global experiment in sharing knowledge and expertise online has become part of the fabric of modern, connected life. Today, every month, people view Wikipedia 11 billion times—just in the English language. The Internet’s encyclopedia has become a global utility, like water or electricity, and we rarely pause to consider the extraordinary fact of its existence..Long before it became the biggest collection of knowledge in the history of the world, Wikipedia had to overcome its greatest challenge: getting strangers on the Internet to trust each other. They had to trust that others would not be abusive or uncivil. They had to trust that others would not unfairly change or erase their contributions. They had to trust that people had good intentions..Trust, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says, is a treasure. But it is not inanimate, like gold or gems. Trust is a living thing that can and must be cultivated. This book will show you how. And it will reveal how his organization, this one-time punchline, has become a global authority—in the same two decades when the public’s trust in everything else, from government to social media, has trended backwards..Every community on earth depends on trust; it underpins our capacity to know things, and it is at an all-time low. Inspiring, approachable, and packed with candid lessons from the early days of Wikipedia, The Seven Rules of Trust is a guide to kickstarting a positive loop of accountability and creativity—and to building things that stand the test of time.


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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, United States

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