The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is a social entrepreneur. 24 Raised in Alabama,
Wales was educated by his mother and grandmother who ran a nontraditional school. In
1994, he dropped out of a doctoral program in economics at Indiana University to take
a job at a stock brokerage firm in Chicago. In the evenings he wrote computer code for
fun and built a web browser. During the late 1990s Internet boom, Wales was one of the
first to grasp the power of an open-source method to provide knowledge on a very large
scale. What differentiates Jimmy Wales from other web entrepreneurs is his idealism:
Wikipedia is free for the end user and supports itself solely by donations (and not, for
example, by online advertising). Jimmy Wales’ idealism is a form of social entrepreneurship:
His vision is to make the entire repository of human knowledge available to anyone,
anywhere for free.
The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is a social entrepreneur. 24 Raised in Alabama,Wales was educated by his mother and grandmother who ran a nontraditional school. In1994, he dropped out of a doctoral program in economics at Indiana University to takea job at a stock brokerage firm in Chicago. In the evenings he wrote computer code forfun and built a web browser. During the late 1990s Internet boom, Wales was one of thefirst to grasp the power of an open-source method to provide knowledge on a very largescale. What differentiates Jimmy Wales from other web entrepreneurs is his idealism:Wikipedia is free for the end user and supports itself solely by donations (and not, forexample, by online advertising). Jimmy Wales’ idealism is a form of social entrepreneurship:His vision is to make the entire repository of human knowledge available to anyone,anywhere for free.
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