His History
This man, this entrepreneur, has impacted each of the people reading this post whether they know it or not. I am speaking of Blake Ross, the co-creator of Mozilla. When Ross was very young, ten years old to be specific, he created his first website. At fifteen he left his sunny home in Miami Florida and moved to California to take an internship at Netscape, which may have been a bad idea since the company was getting the tar beat out of it by Microsoft’s internet explorer. Regardless of the planning this proved to be a very fortunate move for the young Ross. While at Netscape Ross consorted with Joe Hewitt and decided to create a new animal in the realm of internet browsers, this new predator’s name was Firefox. Firefox lead its charge with simplicity as its vangaurd. It took all of unneeded, clunky extras which Netscape had incorporated into its system and threw them out of the window. The result was amazing, the browser loaded pages faster and in turn it was a hit.

His Company
With more than 100 million downloads in the first year this open sourced program quickly started to pull the carpet out from under the feet of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (which at the time held a 95% market share). Then in a very aggressive advance Firefox took hold of almost a 30% market share. It launched a phenomena of browser simplicity which people craved and Google used in their Chrome. He had succeeded in his initial endeavor.

His Path
Parakey, a social page company Ross started after he left Mozilla was purchased by Facebook in 2007. Upon this acquisition Ross came to work for Facebook as their Director of Products. This arrangement lasted for a time until Ross decided to leave. Now Ross is supposedly working on a new project, one which I am personally looking forward to seeing.