Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Donal Wales August 7, 1966 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
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| Residence | London, England, UK | ||
| Other names | Jimbo (online moniker) | ||
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Internet entrepreneur formerly financial trader |
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| Net worth | ≈US$1 million as of 2014[update] | ||
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| Children | 3 daughters | ||
| Awards | See below | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
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Q&A with Jimmy Wales, C-SPAN, 2005 |
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Lecture Jimmy Wales: Understanding failure as a route to success, Maastricht University, 2015 |
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (/ˈdʒɪmi ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz/; born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, , and the for-profit web hosting company.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school. Later, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Finance from Auburn University and the University of Alabama, respectively.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, shortly before midnight on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as the 8th. His father, Jimmy, 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.
As a child, Wales was a keen reader with an acute intellectual curiosity. When he was three, his mother bought a World Book Encyclopedia from a door-to-door salesman. As he grew up and learned to read, it became an object of reverence. It put at his fingertips an abundant supply of knowledge complete with maps, illustrations, and a few cellophane layers of transparencies one could lift to explore such things as the muscles, arteries, and digestive system of a dissected frog. But Wales soon discovered that the World Book had shortcomings: no matter how much was in it, there were many more things that were not. World Book sent out stickers for owners to paste on the pages in order to update the encyclopedia, and Wales was careful to put the stickers to work, stating, "I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought."
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