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Mitch Altman was born on 22 December, 1956 in United States, is an American hacker and inventor. Discover Mitch Altman'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 67 years old?
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Sagittarius |
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22 December, 1956 |
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22 December |
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United States
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Mitch Altman Height, Weight & Measurements
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Mitch Altman Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Mitch Altman worth at the age of 67 years old? Mitch Altman’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United States. We have estimated Mitch Altman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Mitch Altman (born December 22, 1956) is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor of TV-B-Gone.
He is a featured speaker at hacker conferences, an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and teaches introductory electronics workshops.
He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
Altman grew up in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois.
After kindergarten his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois.
Altman graduated from Deerfield High School (Illinois) in 1975.
While at the University of Illinois, Altman co-organized the first Hash Wednesday in Champaign-Urbana in 1977.
Altman is an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he earned an undergraduate degree (1980) and a master's degree (1984) in electrical engineering.
Altman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 to work in Silicon Valley.
Altman was an early developer of Virtual Reality technologies, working at VPL Research with Jaron Lanier.
In addition to Lanier, Altman worked alongside about 15 other individuals.
Altman left VPL Research in protest when it accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense.
Altman co-founded Silicon Valley start-up 3ware in February 1997 with J. Peter Herz and Jim MacDonald (who is on the advisory board of Cornfield Electronics).
Altman started Cornfield Electronics as a consulting company.
After the launch of TV-B-Gone Altman gave the company the tagline "We make Useful Electronics for a Better World".
In 2004 Altman released a one-button universal remote control called TV-B-Gone, to be used for turning off TVs in public places.
Altman used money from the sale of 3ware to pay for the manufacture of the first 20,000 units of TV-B-Gone.
While attending the 2007 Berlin Chaos Communication Camp, Altman and Jacob Appelbaum began discussing the idea of a San Francisco hackerspace, at which time there were no hackerspaces in the United States.
In October 2008 he co-founded Noisebridge, which was probably the third hackerspace formed in the US.
Since then, Altman has traveled extensively, encouraging the formation of hackerspaces, holding panels and workshops on depression, teaching introductory electronics workshops to people of all ages and visiting electronics enthusiast groups around the world.
TedX Brussels invited Altman to give a Ted Talk the Hackerspace movement, Make magazine has referred to Altman as "the Johnny Appleseed of hackerspaces", and Altman, who
has also written for the magazine, was awarded the first "Maker Hero" award—named in his honor—by Make Magazine on May 20, 2011.
Following extensive involvement in the "Maker" movement and Make magazine, including being featured in a Make magazine April Fool's Day prank, Altman publicly parted ways with the Maker Faire in 2012 after the Maker Faire accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense.
By February 2014, he was reported to have sold more than 500,000 units.
TV-B-Gone is in its 4th generation, and Altman developed a new product called the TV-B-Gone SHP (Super High Power).
Mitch Altman is an important figure in the international "hackerspace" and "maker" movements.
In September 2018, Altman announced that he had left Noisebridge.
