Mitch Kapor

Mitchell David Kapor (born in 1950 with Brooklyn, New York) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and the architect of Lotus 1-2-3, celebrates it application often recognized as being responsible for the entry of the Personal computer in the business world, at the beginning of the Années 1980. It was in the forefront at the time of the starter of the revolution of information technologies, as a head of undertaking, investor, activist and philanthropist.

Mitch Kapor was at the public school with Freeport, Long Island. He studied then the Psychologie, the Linguistique, and the Informatique. He was very implied in the animation of the radio of Yale, WYBC-FM, where he worked as a director of the music and a director of the programs.

He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, which was responsible for the technical sides. Together, it created Lotus 1-2-3. Mitch Kapor occupied several management positions between 1982 and 1986, and was director until in 1987. In 1983, at the end of the countable first Year, the company had already a turnover of 53 million dollar S. In 1984, it tripled this figure and in 1985, it counted more than 1000 employees.

In 1990, with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, Mitch Kapor founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was the president until in 1994.

In 2001, it was at the origin of the Open Source Applications Foundation, where it works still today. This work group works on a project named Chandler.

He is married in Freada Kapor Klein and lives with San Francisco.

External bonds

Mitch Kapor' S weblog
Inside Mitch Kapor' S World
Level Playing Field Institute

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