Jimmy Wales

About Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikia, a for-profit hosting company, and Wikipedia, a popular non-profit online encyclopedia.

Jimmy Donal Wales is an English-American Internet entrepreneur and former financial businessman. He is a co-founder of the Wikipedia, for-profit online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia, which later changed its name to Fandom. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, where he attended Randolph School, a pre-university school. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Finance from Auburn University and University of Alabama respectively. At the graduate level, Wales teaches at two universities; however, he quit before completing his doctorate to go to work in finance and later served as research director for a futures and options company in Chicago. In 1996, he and his two associates founded Bomis, an adult and entertainment web portal. Bomis provided the initial funding for the free, peer-to-peer encyclopedia, Nupedia, and its successor, Wikipedia.

Title	President of Fandom, Inc. (2004–present), Chair of Wikimedia Foundation (2003–2006), Chair emeritus of Wikimedia Foundation (2006–present)
Net worth	≈ US$ 1 million (2014)
Successor	Florence Devouard (as Chair of Wikimedia Foundation)
Born	Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation	Internet entrepreneur, financial trader (formerly)
Education	Auburn University (BS), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (MS), Indiana University, Bloomington
Board member of	Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, Sunlight Foundation (advisory board), MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (advisory board), Guardian Media Group (until April 2017)
Children	3 daughters

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Trivia

He received criticism for the accuracy of the content that was published on Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales before fame

He went to the University of Alabama and Indiana University.

Achievement of Jimmy Wales

He was chastised for the accuracy of the information he put on Wikipedia.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$10 Million

Jimmy Wales family life

From 1997 to 2010, he was married to Christine Rohan. In 2012, he married Kate Garvey for the third time. Ada and Kira are his two daughters.

Associations of Jimmy Wales

Both he and Mark Zuckerberg were early adopters of the Internet.

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