The creation of Mozilla Firefox, has a very cool story of how it came about. There used to be a browser called Netscape, you have probably not heard of this, that is because Netscape didn’t work or succeed well at all. So what Netscape tried to do, was do an open-source software, what this means is that they unleash this software on the internet and let the public work on it. In 2002 Blake Ross and a couple of his friends decided to create a new version of Netscape and they called this browser Firefox. The mindset they had when they created this browser, was to make is simpler, more stable and faster. They were not interested in the gadgets of the browser, but rather the functionality. Firefox blew up, web surfers were switching to Firefox at a rate of 7 million a month. Now Blake Ross is 25 years old and worth about 150 million dollars.
This is a great story of taking a chance and trying something new. Blake took advantage of an open-source software and tried making this new browser. He didn’t know if it would blow up or if nobody would care about it, but he was willing to take a chance on it. This is a great lesson for us in life as well. We need to be willing to take the chances without being sure of what the outcomes will be.
This a great story of Entrepreneur who used all the available resources around him to make a great product. I liked how even though his first product failed he continued to improve on it rather than throw the idea out as a whole. Overall, this is a great example of a young entrepreneur.
It’s pretty awesome that he was able to rebound from failure! This guy took a chance on an idea that wasn’t completely formulated yet, and it paid off in a big way for him. Great stuff.
Blake Ross and his friends are a perfect example of millennial entrepreneurs making a difference through the use of the web. I like how Blake and his friends made something from a failure. They didn’t give up and used their knowledge to build a functional browser. This is a motivating story and just shows you that almost anything is possible through hard work.