Michael Homer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Homer
Occupation	Executive
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1958(1958-02-24)
Age	66
Date Of Death	2009-02-01
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Michael Homer Biography

Michael Homer is one of the most popular and richest Executive who was born on February 24, 1958 in San Francisco, California, United States. Homer was born in San Francisco, February 24, 1958. He was awarded a bachelor’s at the University of California Berkeley.

After AOL acquired Netscape in 2000, Homer started Kontiki, which was a peer- assisted delivery technology company. VeriSign purchased Kontiki in March 2006 for $62million. The condition was that the rights to the technology of the firm would be donated to Open Media Network. Homer was instrumental in the growth of several technology companies, including Tellme Networks, TiVo, Google, and Tellme Networks. He also served on the board at Palm, Inc.

Homer died at age 50 on February 1, 2009 in Atherton, California. He was survived by his wife, three children, his mother and sister. The science center at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton is named after him.

John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ main venture capital backer for Go, connected Homer to Marc Andreessen’s Netscape Communications Corporation after Go was closed in 1994. Homer was vice president of Netscape during the early days of the World Wide Web. Homer was a key player in the company’s first business plan. He also played a crucial role in obtaining private financing to enable the company to move to its 1995 initial public offering. In 1994, Netscape was still a new concept. Homer was the head of the marketing department at the firm during the time when Microsoft tried to challenge Netscape’s dominance in the browser market with its Internet Explorer product. This battle eventually led to an antitrust lawsuit. Homer was a key player in arguing that Microsoft had misused its monopoly in the operating system market in order to force Netscape’s browser out in favor of its own.

Michael Homer Net Worth

Michael Homer is one of the richest Executive from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Homer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael J. Homer, February 24, 1958 – February 1, 2009. He was an American electronics and IT industry executive. He played major roles in the creation of the personal computer, mobile devices, and the Internet.

In 1982, Apple Computer hired him as their technology advisor. He was promoted to the position of marketing vice president at GO Corp. in 1982, where he was a pioneer in creating software for mobile computers.

In 2007, persistent memory problems he had been experiencing led to a diagnosis of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder. Several people close to him created “Fight for Mike”, an organization that raised $7 million used to fund research in the neurology department of the University of California, San Francisco towards study and potential cure of the disease. The team at UCSF includes Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his discovery of the prion, misfolded proteins that trigger CJD and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow disease”). The team at UCSF was studying the use of Quinacrine, long used as an antimalarial drug, in the treatment of CJD.

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Executive. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Homer celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.