 The staff at Bomis was originally about five employees . Its 2000 staff included programmer Toan Vo and system administrator Jason Richey ; Wales employed his high @-@ school friend and best man in his second wedding , Terry Foote , as advertising director . In June 2000 , Bomis was one of five network partners of Ask Jeeves . The majority of the revenue that came in to Bomis was generated through advertising . The most successful time for Bomis was during its venture as a member of the NBC web portal NBCi ; this collapsed at the end of the dot @-@ com bubble . 
