Blake Ross

Quick Facts

Full Name	Blake Ross
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1985(1985-06-12)
Age	39
Birthplace	Miami
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Gemini

Blake Ross Biography

Blake Ross is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on June 12, 1985 in Miami, Florida, United States. Software developer, known for his role as Co-creator and co-creator for Mozilla Firefox. He also developed an operating system called Parakey that was acquired by Facebook in 2007.

The year 2012 was the last time he appeared on a list with millionaires who were younger than 30 in the technology sector, which also included the likes of In 2012, he was featured on a list of millionaires under the age of 30 in the tech industry that included Mark Zuckerberg..

Ross is most well known for co-founding the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt. Ross discovered Netscape very soon after it open-sourced and began contributing, his mother’s frustrated user experience with Internet Explorer being the main driver. He worked as an intern at Netscape Communications Corporation at the age of 16. In 2003, he enrolled at Stanford University. While interning at Netscape, Ross became disenchanted with the browser he was working on and the direction given to it by America Online, which had recently purchased Netscape. Ross and Hyatt envisioned a smaller, easy-to-use browser that could have mass appeal, and Firefox was born from that idea. The open source project gained momentum and popularity, and in 2003 all of Mozilla’s resources were devoted to the Firefox and Thunderbird projects. Released in November 2004, when Ross was 19, Firefox quickly grabbed market share (primarily from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer), with 100 million downloads in less than a year.

Born in Miami, Florida, Ross was raised in Key Biscayne, Florida. His mother, Abby, is a psychologist, and his father David is a lawyer. He has an older brother and sister. Ross created his first website via America Online at the age of 10. By middle school, an interest in Sim City led him to piece together a couple of rudimentary videogames. He attended high school in Miami at Gulliver Preparatory School, graduating in 2003 while simultaneously working for Mozilla, based in California.

He was raised at Key Biscayne, FL with his sister and brother. The mother of the family was psychologist, and his father was an attorney.

Blake Ross Net Worth

Blake Ross is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Blake Ross 's net worth $150 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The first time he was exposed to engineering was at the age of 10 working for America Online. He was a part-time employee at Netscape at the age of fourteen and had been working for Mozilla when the time he graduated high school in 2003.

He was employed by Facebook from 2007 until 2013. The fanfiction he wrote to the TV program Silicon Valley was well-received.

Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine’s top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2005 hot list. From 2007, he worked for Facebook as Director of Product until resigning in early

2013. In 2015, he wrote a fan fiction original screenplay for the HBO television comedy series Silicon Valley, which gained attention.

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Who is Blake Ross Dating?

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In 2016, Ross found out that he has a condition known as aphantasia, a relatively rare inability to visualize anything. He wrote

Facts & Trivia

Blake Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Blake Ross celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.

Who founded Firefox?

Firefox began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla codebase by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross.

How old is Blake Ross?

36 years (June 12, 1985)

What company did Blake Ross work as a director for?

Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross is leaving the company, he announced in a Facebook post yesterday afternoon. For those of you who weren’t reading TechCrunch in 2007, Firefox co-founder Ross and Joe Hewitt came to Facebook through its acquisition of Parakey, a web OS that was still in stealth at the time.

Is Firefox a Chinese company?

Mozilla Online is a separate organization that operates in China and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation.

How does Mozilla make money?

These royalties refer to the percentage of advertising revenue Mozilla receives whenever someone uses the built-in search engine that the Firefox browser provides. In addition to search royalties, Mozilla earns money from donations and from sponsored new tab tiles , which can be disabled.