Theodor "Tedde" Mauritz Forselius (born 23 March 1995) is a Swedish

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and internet entrepreneur from

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, Sweden. He is best known as the co-founder and

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Everipedia Everipedia () is a defunct blockchain-based and online encyclopedia. Everipedia was founded in 2014 and was officially launched in 2015 as a fork of Wikipedia by Larry Sanger (who co-founded Wikipedia). In 2022, Everipedia rebranded to IQ.wiki. ...

Career

In December 2014, Theodor Forselius co-founded

. They built the first version of the website in Kazemian's college dormitory room at

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. Since then, Forselius and Everipedia have been internationally recognized in publications such as

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. He has also been featured on the front pages of local publications in Sweden such as Veckans Affärer and Dagens Industri.

References

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