Mitch Kapor
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November 1, 1950 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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Yale University (B.A., 1971) Beacon College of Boston (M.S., 1978) MIT Sloan School of Management |
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| Known for | Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation | ||
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Mitchell David "Mitch" Kapor (
i/ˈkeɪ.pʊər/ KAY-poor), born November 1, 1950, is an entrepreneur best known for promoting the first spreadsheet VisiCalc, and 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. Kapor has been an investor in the personal computing industry, and supporter of social causes, like the Hidden Genius Project, The College Bound Brotherhood, and Advancement Project. As Partner at Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact, Mitch, along with his wife Freada Kapor Klein, invests in social impact tech startups that seek to narrow gaps in opportunity and access for underrepresented communities and attempt to eliminate barriers to full participation across the tech ecosystem.
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