Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Walesis an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 August 1966
CountryUnited States of America
running real company
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
reality thinking
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
real pressure arguing
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
jobs real welcome
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
real struggle party
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
audio cds german learning
I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games.
across bigger gets interested people stumble
The bigger it gets and the more people stumble across it, the more people are interested in volunteering.
beauty forum free neutral point promote
The beauty of a forum like this is free speech. But we also promote a neutral point of view.
best either joke might people quick site successful worst
I joke a lot that (choosing to be a nonprofit) was either the best thing or the worst thing I've ever done. But I think that the site wouldn't have been successful with ads. People might not be so quick to contribute.
becoming build kinds mass model
It's a mass collaboration to build all kinds of things. It's becoming a new model for doing things on the Internet.
controls evaluate whether
We have to continually evaluate whether our controls are enough.
We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
bad borderline faith gets good people reasonable work
Especially with politics, it gets more and more borderline on what's in bad faith or good faith. Reasonable people can find a way to work together. Unreasonable people get blocked, of course.
believers interest investing investors matter people sure
We've had a lot of interest from investors, and it was really a matter of sorting through the investors to be sure that people who are investing were people who were believers in our mission.