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Why is there something rather than nothing? - Richard Price: CEO of Academia.edu
Here are some other questions we discuss: What did socrates say about the unexamined life? What would it mean to have free will? Is there a specialization in studying interdisciplinary studies? What does the university of the internet look like? What are the three components of effective education? What does excellence look like? How do you think more…
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He was at Oxford doing his PhD in Philosophy. He tried to share one of the papers he had recently published online. He couldn't do it easily. He had to write custom HTML and other things. So he decided to build Academia.edu to help other academics share their papers with ease.
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