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[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.
Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case Decentralisation, WordPress and Open Publishing.
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So on the podcast today we have Dave Winer. Dave’s journey into the heart of Silicon Valley began in the 1980s when he left Wisconsin and moved to California with two products and a dream to achieve fame and fortune in the world of technology. Driven by a deep belief that real communication involves people truly connecting, he set out to make his mark.
Early on, he found himself in a memorable meeting with Steve Jobs. Both were in their early twenties, bursting with ambition and self-assurance. Their encounter was fiery and competitive, yet it marked the start of Dave’s lifelong mission to wire the world together, not just with technology, but by bringing people closer through it.
If you’ve ever subscribed to a blog, listened to a podcast, or shared your thoughts online, chances are you’ve benefited from Dave’s pioneering work. He’s the developer behind influential technologies like RSS, and a longtime advocate for open, user owned, publishing platforms.
He describes himself as someone who wrote the first versions of lots of software, wants to