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Mitch Kapor

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Mitchell David Kapor ( KAY-por; 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. 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, he became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mitch Kapor is the 811th most popular businessperson (down from 770th in 2024), the 15,077th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,499th in 2019) and the 285th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Mitch Kapor ranks 811 out of 847. Before him are Leslie Benzies, Herb Kohl, María Sefidari, Phil Spencer, Esther Dyson, and Zhang Qingwei. After him are Heidi Fleiss, Forrest Li, Biz Stone, Richard Sulík, Rohan Marley, and Adam Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Mitch Kapor ranks 730. Before him are Rahat Indori, Paul Westphal, Alan Johnson, Fredis Refunjol, Daniel Benzali, and Charles Krauthammer. After him are Tom Robinson, David Ignatius, Phoebe Snow, Charles Frazier, Pawan Kumar Chamling, and Dave Freudenthal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mitch Kapor ranks 15,082 out of 20,380. Before him are Clement Comer Clay (1789), Joyce DeWitt (1949), Kendrick Nunn (1995), Inspectah Deck (1970), Daniel M. Tani (1961), and Russell Hoban (1925). After him are Conrad Richter (1890), Junkyard Dog (1952), Dean Devlin (1962), Bonnie Somerville (1974), Eric Allman (1955), and Steven Hawley (1951).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Mitch Kapor ranks 285. Before him are Bill Ackman (1966), Julia Koch (1962), Bryan Johnson (1977), Lloyd Blankfein (1954), Herb Kohl (1935), and Phil Spencer (1968). After him are Heidi Fleiss (1965), Biz Stone (1974), Carol Bartz (1948), Glenn Beck (1964), Rick Snyder (1958), and Scooter Braun (1981).

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