In 1996, Wales founded a search portal called Bomis which (among other projects) sold original glamour photography pictures, and included a "Bomis Babes" blog. Because of his position with Bomis, Wales has been accused of peddling pornography. Wales disputes this, however, telling Wired that "If R-rated movies are soft porn, it was porn. In other words, no, it was not." [1] Additionally, Wales has been accused of trying to obscure his relationship to Bomis[2], with detractors pointing to the parody "history" section of the site which says: "The company was bought out by a large Washington-based media corporation, which, according to the terms of a later Severance Agreement, must not be mentioned by name in connection with Bomis" [3]. When Wales was CEO, Bomis donated over a hundred thousand dollars (primarily through salaries and providing free internet access and bandwidth) into Nupedia and Wikipedia and continued supporting them into 2002.
For what it's worth.
Thanks, sounds like a bit of a stretch to call him a por mogul .