Larry Sanger is a technology entrepreneur and writer who co-founded Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, and later founded the Knowledge Standards Foundation to develop open standards for decentralized encyclopedic content. Larry Sanger's Twitter Score is 67 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #12,550 (top 5%) among 483,508 tracked accounts.
Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia before turning his attention to alternative approaches to open knowledge. He previously served as Chief Information Officer at Everipedia, a blockchain-based encyclopedia project that launched on the EOS blockchain and raised $30 million in funding led by Galaxy Digital's EOS.io Ecosystem Fund in 2018. In October 2019, Sanger announced his departure from that role, stating he returned his Everipedia equity without compensation and neither received nor cashed in any IQ tokens. Everipedia was later renamed IQ.wiki in 2022 and shifted its focus to cryptocurrency topics.
Larry Sanger founded the Knowledge Standards Foundation upon leaving Everipedia, and currently serves as its president. The foundation's stated mission centers on publishing technical standards for the Encyclosphere, a proposed decentralized network for encyclopedic content that Sanger has described as distinct from blockchain, though compatible with it. Larry Sanger also previously served on the advisory board of Phunware. His account has published 87,055 posts and has attracted 96,792 followers as of August 2026. Larry Sanger has been mentioned by 101 accounts, with 202 total mentions.
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