mitch & freada
[oakland]
adding page because of this..
@AvivGilboa
“Genius is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not.” – @tristanwalker quoting @mkapor
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find/follow Freada:
Founder of Level Playing Field Institute, investor in social impact startups, dog devotee
kapor center site:
Freada Kapor Klein Ph.D. (born 1952) is a venture capitalist, social policy researcher and philanthropist. As a partner at Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact, she is known for efforts to diversify the technology workforce through activism and investments. Her 2007 book Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay examines the reasons people have for leaving corporate America as well as the human and financial cost.
Klein first became a victims advocate in the 1970s. During this time, she noticed a widespread denial of the prevalence of sexual harassment and compared it to the silence surrounding rape that she had seen six years earlier. Kapor Klein’s association with technology companies began when she started working for Lotus Software in 1984. In 2015, Benjamin Jealous called her “the moral center of Silicon Valley and an O.G. in technology
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find/follow Mitch:
entrepreneur, investor, activist
his site:
from bio page:
Mitch Kapor is a pioneer of the personal computing industry, and an entrepreneur, investor and advocate for social change. 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 narrow gaps in opportunity and access for underrepresented communities and eliminate barriers to full participation across the tech ecosystem.
a nother way.. for all of us.. today
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Often credited with the ability to “see around corners”, Mitch was instrumental in initiatives that created the modern Internet. He co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990 and served as its chairman until 1994. EFF defends civil liberties in the digital world and works to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
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In 2003, Mitch became the founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox.
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Today, with over 100 companies in its portfolio, Kapor Capital focuses on information technology driven, seed stage startups that drive positive social impact by drawing on the lived experiences of their founders.
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ie: hosting-life-bits via self-talk as data
The Kapor Center for Social Impact, a pioneering institution focused on tech inclusion and social impact, invests social and financial capital in vital non-profit organizations on the premise that
genius is evenly distributed by Zip code but opportunity is not.
let’s do this first: free art-ists.
In August 2015, Mitch and Freada announced they would invest $40 million over three years to accelerate their work to make the tech ecosystem more inclusive.
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Mitchell David Kapor (/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 theHidden 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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lifetime achievement – 2016:
bringing equality…
leveling playing field
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be you. 