Jimmy Wales
Born: August 8, 1966
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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of
Wikipedia.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. He attended The Randolph School and a university-preparatory school, and then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities. Wales later took a job in finance, and worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm for several years. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal that targeted males, and which hosted, and provided the initial funding for, the peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and its successor,
Wikipedia.
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