Ross is one of the founding creators of the popular web browser Firefox.  Blake Ross was born to a Jewish family in Miami Florida in 1985.  His mother was a psychologist, and his father was a lawyer.  Ross created his first website at the age of just 10.  By middle school he had put together some rudimentary video games, these were born out or an interest for the game sim city.  He graduated from Gulliver Preparatory School and graduated in 2003 while also working for Mozilla in California.  Ross is most known for co-founding the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt.  Ross discovered Netscape soon after it open sourced and began to contribute.  The story goes that the driving factor for his contribution was the difficulty that his mother experienced while using the site.  He worked as an intern at Netscape Communications Corporation at the age of just 16.  While interning, he lost some love for the browser he was working on and imagined something smaller and easier to use, at this time he was also enrolled in Stanford University.  In 2004, Ross and Hyatt launched Firefox, it was backed by almost all Mozilla’s resources and quickly gained market share.  Firefox had more than 100 million downloads in just the first year.  He is now worth over 150 million dollars.  Ross is yet another prime example of someone who saw a problem in everyday life and used his unique skill to solve it in a way that creates positive impact.  His creation that was born out of a dissatisfaction felt by his mother is still over by over 150 million people who prefer and trust it over the larger browsers like google and safari.