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Baroness Rebuck and Jimmy Wales join Guardian Media Group board. Chair of book publisher Penguin Random House UK and Wikipedia founder take up their roles with immediate effect.
Inspired by the successful initial public offering of Netscape in 1995, and having accumulated capital through "speculating on interest-rate and foreign-currency fluctuations", Wales decided to leave the realm of financial trading and became an Internet entrepreneur.
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Apr 16, 2019 · In 2017, Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales – the Wikipedia cofounder whose plaintive face used to haunt the free encyclopedia’s homepage during fundraising campaigns – decided to save journalism.
Apr 25, 2017 · Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, will leave the board of the Guardian newspaper after opting to launch his own rival news operation that will compete for staff, stories and donations.
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Apr 30, 2017 · Think, for example, of the infamous lie put about by the Leave campaign in the referendum – that the £350m that the UK supposedly pays every week to the EU could be better spent on the NHS.
Aug 24, 2021 · Was it dominant enough that it was on everyone’s radar? Or was there something else that happened? Because that seemed to provide the fuel for some of what happened later. How did that actually come together? Jimmy Wales: I would say, no, we were by no means dominant. We only ever had a little bit of press coverage.
