What Does Jimmy Wales Mean?
Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur most notable for being the co-founder of the prominent nonprofit open content reference site Wikipedia, as well as the for-profit Web hosting company Wikia. He launched Wikipedia together with Larry Sanger in January 15, 2001 as a for-profit business and as a tool to help develop Nupedia, a Web-based encyclopedia.
Techopedia Explains Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales is a financial trader turned Internet entrepreneur. He started his career as a trader with Chicago Options Associates in 1994, but his self-proclaimed addiction to the Internet led him to write computer code in his free time. He then experienced the full potential of computer networks in fostering large-scale project collaboration during his studies in Alabama when he became obsessed with multi-user dungeons (MUD), an early form of text-based role playing game. This experience later made him decide to become an Internet entrepreneur.
