Jimmy Wales
Internet entrepreneur, Wikipedia co-founder
Jimmy Wales is an internet entrepreneur who co-founded Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. He is also the author of The Seven Rules of Trust.
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Born 1966 in Huntsville, United States
About Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and studied finance at both Auburn University and the University of Alabama. He worked as a financial options trader in Chicago in the 1990s, later becoming chief research officer at Chicago Options Associates. In 1996 he co-founded Bomis, which paid for the free encyclopedia Nupedia. He launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others. He also co-founded Fandom (formerly Wikia) and has worked on WikiTribune and Trust Café. Wales has sat on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation since it began. Time magazine included him on its 2006 list of the world's 100 most influential people. His book in our catalog is The Seven Rules of Trust.