Jimmy Wales Biography

Born on August 7th, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama, and he attended Randolph School, Randolph is a university preparatory school. He is also known as the line marketer Jimbo. He is an online nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia, and also the for-profit web hosting company. As of 2014, he has the net worth of US$1 million. In 1996 he left his job at the firm to confound a startup called born, though the venture wasn’t successful, it motivated him to pursue his vision of creating an online encyclopedia, he launched Nupedia in the year 2000, its an open content peer- moderate references site. He later hired Ana content to serve as editor in chief for his Nupedia, Its know that Wikipedia and Nupedia coexisted for a short time. But later in 2004, he co-founded a for-profit internet company called Wikia, but later on, step down from the position as CEO in the year 2009.

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