Jimmy Wales
@jimmywales
co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
Building Fandom, Inc. as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Born
- 1966
- Educated at
- Auburn University · University of Alabama · Indiana University Bloomington · Indiana University
About
Jimmy Wales is an entrepreneur and Wikimedian, born in 1966 in Huntsville. They studied at Auburn University. They served as Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
In context
Fandom, Inc. was founded in 2004 and has no closure on record. Among the 671 other business companies founded in the 2000s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 10 years.
Named alongside
At Bomis
- Michael E. DavisFounder
- Tim ShellFounder
Contribution
Jimmy's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.