Explore popular quotes and sayings by Mitchell Kapor.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Mitchell David Kapor 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 and the Kapor Center. 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.
[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!
Having information that the other side doesn't have gives VCs an advantage... they take advantage of entrepreneurs who haven't been through this before... they were totally willing to take advantage of us.
Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.
If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.