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Mitch Kapor (Mitchell David Kapor) was born on 1 November, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American entrepreneur. Discover Mitch Kapor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Mitchell David Kapor
Occupation Entrepreneur
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 1 November 1950
Birthday 1 November
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1950

Mitchell David Kapor (born November 1, 1950 ) is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as an application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry, later founding Lotus, where he was instrumental in developing the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet.

1967

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.

1971

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

He 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.

1982

Kapor and his business partner Jonathan Sachs founded Lotus in 1982 with backing from Ben Rosen.

Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System.

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

Even though IBM and VisiCorp had a collaboration agreement whereby Visi-Calc was being shipped simultaneously with the PC, Lotus had a clearly superior product.

1983

Lotus released Lotus 1-2-3 on January 26, 1983.

The name referred to the three ways the product could be used, as a spreadsheet, graphics package, and database manager.

In practice the latter two functions were less often used, but 1-2-3 was the most powerful spreadsheet program available.

Lotus was almost immediately successful, becoming the world's third largest microcomputer software company in 1983 with $53 million in sales in its first year, compared to its business plan forecast of $1 million in sales.

Jerome Want says:

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

1986

He left Lotus in 1986.

1990

In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994.

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

EFF defends civil liberties in the digital world and works to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as the use of technology grows.

1996

In 1996, the Computer History Museum named him a Museum Fellow "for his development of Lotus 1-2-3, the first major software application for the IBM PC".

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

As an active angel investor, Kapor participated in the initial rounds of Dropcam, Twilio, Asana, Cleanify, and Uber.

2000

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

The institution's mission is to invest in social and financial capital in vital non-profit organizations.

As part of the Kapor Center, Kapor Capital is its venture capital arm.

2003

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

Kapor has been an investor in the personal computing industry, and supporter of social causes via Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center.

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

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

Kapor serves on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.

2005

Kapor attended the first Wikimania in 2005.

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

He was also founding chair of the Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX).

2009

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".

2011

The venture capital firm has been investing since 2011.

2015

In August 2015, Mitch and Freada Kapor announced they would invest $40 million over three years to accelerate their work to make the tech ecosystem more inclusive.

In addition to his roles at Kapor Capital and Kapor Center, Mitch currently serves on the board of SMASH, whose mission is to enhance equal opportunity in education and the workplace, and sits on the advisory board of Generation Investment Management, a firm whose vision is to embed sustainability into the mainstream capital markets.

He is married to Freada Kapor Klein and resides in Oakland and Healdsburg, California.

2016

Since 2016, the Kapor Center for Social Impact, Kapor Capital, and SMASH have been located in the Uptown neighborhood of Oakland, CA.

2018

As of 2018, Kapor Capital has made over 160 investments, primarily in information technology seed stage startups, with a particular focus on diversity.