Jimmy Wales

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jimmy Wales
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Aug 7, 1966(1966-08-07)
Age	58
Birthplace	Huntsville
Country	United States
Birth City	Alabama
Horoscope	Leo

Jimmy Wales Biography

Jimmy Wales is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. Co- founder of the widely-used non-profit online dictionary Wikipedia as well as the for-profit hosting firm that is known as Wikia.

He as well as He and Mark Zuckerberg were both pioneers of the Cyber Age. were both pioneers of the Cyber Age.

Jimmy Donal “Jimbo” Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an American-British Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.

After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, graduating at sixteen. Wales said that the school was expensive for his family, but that “education was always a passion in my household … you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life.” He received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Auburn University in 1986. He began his Auburn education when he was 16 years old. Wales then entered the PhD finance program at the University of Alabama before leaving with a master’s degree to enter the PhD finance program at Indiana University. At the University of Alabama, he played Internet fantasy games and developed his interest in the web. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies but did not write the doctoral dissertation required for a PhD, something he ascribed to boredom.

The couple was together for a while. Christine Rohan from 1997 to the year 2010. He got married three times with Kate Garvey in 2012. He has two daughters named Ada Kira and Ada. Kira.

Jimmy Wales Net Worth

Jimmy Wales is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jimmy Wales 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Indiana University and the University of Alabama.

The Wikipedia article was criticized regarding the authenticity of the information that was posted on Wikipedia.

Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, shortly before midnight on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. His father Jimmy Sr., worked as a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris Ann (née Dudley), and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three siblings received their early education.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Jimmy Wales Dating?

According to our records, Jimmy Wales married to Kate Garvey , Christine Rohan , Pamela Green. As of December 1, 2023, Jimmy Wales’s is not dating anyone.

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Inspired by the remarkably successful initial public offering of Netscape in 1995, and having accumulated capital through “speculating on interest-rate and foreign-currency fluctuations”, Wales decided to leave the realm of financial trading and became an Internet entrepreneur. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal featuring user-generated webrings and, for a time, erotic photographs. Wales described it as a “guy-oriented search engine” with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine; the Bomis venture did not ultimately turn out to be successful.

Facts & Trivia

Jimmy Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jimmy Wales celebrates birthday on August 7 of every year.

In January 2001, Sanger was introduced to the concept of a wiki by extreme programming enthusiast Ben Kovitz after explaining to Kovitz the slow pace of growth Nupedia endured as a result of its onerous submission process. Kovitz suggested that adopting the wiki model would allow editors to contribute simultaneously and incrementally throughout the project, thus breaking Nupedia’s bottleneck. Sanger was excited about the idea, and after he proposed it to Wales, they created the first Nupedia wiki on January 10, 2001. The wiki was initially intended as a collaborative project for the public to write articles that would then be reviewed for publication by Nupedia’s expert volunteers. The majority of Nupedia’s experts, however, wanted nothing to do with this project, fearing that mixing amateur content with professionally researched and edited material would compromise the integrity of Nupedia’s information and damage the credibility of the encyclopedia. Thus, the wiki project, dubbed “Wikipedia” by Sanger, went live at a separate domain five days after its creation.

Is Jimmy Wales rich?

American Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales has an estimated net worth of $1 million (£750,000). He is the co-founder of Wikipedia, the online non-profit encyclopaedia, and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia. Born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama, Wales is also known as Jimbo Wales.

Where is Jimmy Wales now?

About Jimmy Wales He currently serves on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees , a charity he helped establish to operate Wikipedia. Time named him one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2006.

Who is the real founder of Wikipedia?

There are two co-founders of Wikipedia: Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer. Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur.

Who is Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia?

Jimmy Donal “Jimbo” Wales (/ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz/; born August 7, 1966) is an American-born British Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the people who started Wikipedia and Wikia. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. There, he went to Randolph School.

Is Jimmy Wales married?

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