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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 different languages on Wikipedia. Mitch Kapor is the 775th most popular businessperson (down from 770th in 2019), the 14,960th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,503rd in 2019) and the 278th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Mitch Kapor ranks 775 out of 847. Before him are Artemy Lebedev, Lloyd Blankfein, Leslie Benzies, Herb Kohl, María Sefidari, and Esther Dyson. After him are Biz Stone, Adam Neumann, Pallonji Mistry, Zeev Suraski, Eric Yuan, and Ahmed Wali Karzai.

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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 14,965 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 278. Before him are Charles Erwin Wilson (1890), Angela Ahrendts (1960), Tory Burch (1966), James M. Beggs (1926), Lloyd Blankfein (1954), and Herb Kohl (1935). After him are Biz Stone (1974), Carol Bartz (1948), Glenn Beck (1964), Rick Snyder (1958), Scooter Braun (1981), and Travis Kalanick (1976).

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