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Why Did Richard Price Build Academia.edu

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From the episode: Why is there something rather than nothing? - Richard Price: CEO of Academia.edu

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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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