To get there, he must first convince people of the value of sharing -- a task he acknowledges as tricky.

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He got the support of a writer named Thomas Paine to take the message to the streets, sharing the vision with ten thousand people who volunteered to form short-term task forces that would join the campaign and then disband.

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