17 Facts About Mitchell Kapor

In 2003, Mitchell Kapor became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox.

Mitchell Kapor serves on the board of SMASH, a non-profit founded by Klein to help underrepresented scholars hone their STEM knowledge while building the networks and skills for careers in tech and the sciences.

Mitchell Kapor was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Freeport, New York on Long Island, where he graduated from high school in 1967.

Mitchell Kapor received a B A from Yale College in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics, and computer science in an interdisciplinary major, attending the Boston-based Beacon College, which had a satellite campus in Washington, D C at the time.

Mitchell Kapor began but did not complete a master's degree at the MIT Sloan School of Management but later served on the faculty of the MIT Media Lab and the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.

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Mitchell Kapor founded Lotus after leaving his post as head of development at VisiCorp, the distributors of the Visicalc spreadsheet, and selling all his rights to VisiPlot and VisiTrend to VisiCorp.

Shortly after Mitchell Kapor left Visi-Corp, he and Sachs produced an integrated spreadsheet and graphics program.

Mitchell Kapor was extensively involved in initiatives that created the modern Internet.

Mitchell Kapor co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990 and served as its chairman until 1994.

Mitchell Kapor was the founding investor in UUNET, one of the first, and the largest among, early Internet service providers; of Real Networks, the Internet's first streaming media company; and of Linden Lab, maker of the first successful virtual world, Second Life.

Mitchell Kapor was founding chair of the Commercial Internet eXchange .

In 2003, Mitchell Kapor became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox.

Mitchell Kapor serves on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.

In May 2009, after founder Susan P Crawford had joined the Obama administration, Kapor took over chairmanship of OneWebDay - the "Earth Day for the internet".

Mitchell Kapor founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health.

Mitchell Kapor founded the Mitchell Kapor Center in 2000 as an institution focused on tech inclusion and social impact.

Mitchell Kapor was a student of the program in 1966.