Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal “Jimbo” Wales (born August 7, 1966

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, Wales attended a small private school, then a university preparatory school, eventually attaining a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in finance. During his graduate studies, he taught at two universities.

In 2001, together with Larry Sanger and others, Wales helped launch Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia which subsequently enjoyed rapid growth and popularity.

Wales has been married twice and has a daughter with his second wife, Christine, from whom he is separated. He self-identifies as an Objectivist and, with reservations, a libertarian.

Wales was born in 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama, in the United States.

After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School,

In 1994, rather than writing his doctoral dissertation, Wales took a job with Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago, Illinois.

Inspired by the remarkable initial public offering of Netscape in 1995, he decided to become an internet entrepreneur,

Though Bomis had struggled to make money, it provided Wales with the funding to pursue his greater passion, an online encyclopedia.
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Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization
Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation – a nonprofit organization that provides standards-aligned online textbooks to kindergarten to grade … Read more

Jimmy Wales On The Birth Of Wikipedia
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, takes us through from “a very radical idea…to give every person on the planet access to the sum of all human knowledge…” that has become the turned-to resource: Wikipedia. … Read more
Update on Wikia – doing more of what's working « Jimmy Wales
George Washington University, JD, 1991. Reply · Wade Hobbs, Jr. said,. 5 May, 2009 at 11:43 am. “If there is one thing that I’ve learned in my career, it is to do more of what’s working, and less of what’s not.” – Jimmy Wales. Superb! …Read more
Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia | Video on TED.com
TED Talks Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. Read more

T Jantunen.com » Jimmy Wales and the Slippery Slope
Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia, recently attempted to pressure ECT News Network into killing or drastically revising an article that was not to his liking. In an illuminating series of no fewer than 17 email messages, … Read more

Technology News: Tech Buzz: Jimmy Wales and the Slippery Slope
The most important technology news, developments and trends with insightful analysis and commentary. Coverage includes hardware, software, networking, wireless computing, personal technology, security and cutting-edge technology from … Read more