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Mitch Kapor

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(Computer programmer, businessman, activist)
BornNovember 1, 1950
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Alma materYale University, MIT Sloan School of Management
Computer software entrepreneur who co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Mitchell David Kapor [1][2]) 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. He left Lotus in 1986. In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. 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[3]


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