Simon Kissane wrote:
(On a side note, how
many people working on Wikipedia actually are employed
by Bomis? There's Larry, Jimbo, and who else?).
I am the majority owner of Bomis. Tim Shell is my partner, and we
have another partner who is (merely) an investor, not an active
participant in the company.
Larry works solely on Nupedia and Wikipedia.
You may also have had contact with Jason, Ted, and Toan, which, if you
include me as well, is our programming staff.
We currently have 10 employees. In addition to me, Tim, Larry, Jason, Ted
and Toan, there is Terry (advertising sales), Christine (business
manager and my wife) in the business areas, and Rob and Jeremy in the
Bomis content management department. The 10th employee is my brother
Johnny -- he only works part-time, doing programming tasks.
We have never had venture capital. We didn't make millions in the
dot-com boom, but we didn't lose millions, either. We never even
*saw* millions. :-) We're making a decent living, and we're growing
the company in the old fashioned way, i.e. trying to turn a proft from
month to month, paying the bills, serving the customers.
As a side note, it is sort of funny to me when I read people
discussing "Bomis" in the abstract. Ultimately, that just means me,
since I'm the final decisionmaking authority. Bomis is not a big
abstract company, it's just the people that you know. A down home mom
and pop dot-com. :-)
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