Owner: Mitch Kapor
تسجيل: N700MK
النوع: جلف ستريم G650ER
السنة: 2018
المقاعد: 14
القيمة: US$ 75 مليون
Owners Company: Kapor Capital
The Gulfstream G650ER jet with registration N700MK is owned by Mitch Kapor.
Mitchell David Kapor, born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, is a significant figure in the tech industry, known for founding Lotus and developing the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, a pivotal software in personal computing. Educated at Yale College with a focus on psychology, linguistics, and computer science, Kapor didn’t complete his master’s at MIT but later taught at the MIT Media Lab and UC Berkeley. After leaving Lotus in 1986, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990, advocating for digital rights, and in 2003, became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, behind the Firefox web browser.
Kapor has made substantial investments in the tech industry, including early internet service providers, streaming media, and virtual worlds, alongside more contemporary tech ventures like Dropcam, Twilio, and Uber. Through Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center, he focuses on promoting diversity and inclusion within the tech ecosystem, pledging $40 million in 2015 to further these goals.
Kapor’s philanthropic efforts extend to environmental health and tech inclusion, illustrating his commitment to leveraging technology for social impact. He also contributes to educational initiatives, notably through SMASH, a non-profit aimed at supporting underrepresented scholars in STEM, founded by his wife, Freada Kapor Klein. Living in California with Klein, Kapor’s career spans developments in software, digital rights, and efforts to foster a more inclusive tech industry, marking him as a visionary entrepreneur and advocate for social change.