Early alumni of this company included Ed Esber who would later run Ashton-Tate, Bill Coleman who would found BEA Systems, Mitch Kapor founder of Lotus Software and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rich Melmon who would co-found Electronic Arts, Bruce Wallace author of Asteroids in Space, and Brad Templeton who would found early dot-com company ClariNET.

In January 2008, Mitch Kapor announced that he was leaving the board and would only finance Chandler until the end of 2008.

Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island in Freeport, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1967.

Kapor was the original Chair and is currently on the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, a San Francisco-based company which created the popular virtual world Second Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation.

Kapor serves on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.

" We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first ," Kapor said.

In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he worked on Chandler Project.

; Massively distributed collaboration: The term massively distributed collaboration was coined by Mitchell Kapor, in a presentation at UC Berkeley on 2005-11-09, to describe an emerging activity of wikis and electronic mailing lists and blogs and other content-creating virtual communities online.

When Kapor decided to leave, the other executives pressed for a clause forbidding Kapor to work on an " integrated spreadsheet ", but Opdendyk couldn't be bothered, exclaiming Kapor is a spaghetti programmer, denigrating his abilities.

Freada Kapor Klein, Ph. D. ( born 1952 ) is a pioneer in the field of organizational development and human resources and diversity consulting, as co-founder of the first organization in the U. S. to offer comprehensive services, training, and consultation on the topic of sexual harassment to both the private and public sectors in 1976.

From late 1981 to the eventual release of Visi On, most of the product management of the company left, notably Mitch Kapor in charge of VisiCalc development, Ed Esber, Roy Folk, Visi On's product marketing manager, among others.

The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc.

Mitchell David Kapor ( born 1 November 1950 ) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.

Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, and created Lotus 1-2-3.

Kapor served as the President ( later Chairman ) and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus from 1982 to 1986 and as a Director until 1987.

Kapor founded Lotus after working as head of development at VisiCorp ( the marketers of VisiCalc ) and selling the rights to his products VisiPlot and VisiTrend to VisiCorp.

Kapor was also the fundamental architect of the " free-form " database application, Lotus Agenda.

Lotus was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs with backing from Ben Rosen.

Kapor founded Lotus after leaving his post as head of development at VisiCorp ( the distributors of the Visicalc spreadsheet ) and selling all his rights to the VisiPlot and VisiTrend products to VisiCorp.

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ' The Lotus Position ' or ' Padmasana '.

* Mitch Kapor, founder, Lotus Software, inventor, Lotus 1-2-3

In response to the arrests, a group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and John Perry Barlow, an author.

Jonathan Sachs ( b. June 25, 1947 ) was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.

Guest speakers have included Maarten Schmidt, who has done pioneering work in quasars ; the late Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate in physics ; James Randi, magician and debunker of pseudoscience ; Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development ; and Paul MacCready, creator of the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross.

* Mitch Kapor ( 1966 )-( b. 1950 ) founder of Lotus Development Corporation

Notable items in WELL history include being the forum through which John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, and Mitch Kapor, the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, met.

The street is known to the Hoklos ( Hokkien ) as kam kong ka poh thai tu long, which means " the slaughter pig depot in Kampong Kapor ", a reference to the abattoir in the vicinity.

Secretary general Teo Chee Kang won the Tanjong Kapor seat which was previously held by Chong Kah Kiat.

One of these was written by a former VisiCalc programmer, Mitch Kapor.

* 1983: Foliranti by Momo Kapor ( from Serbian ).

Kapor served as Music Director and Program Director at Yale's radio station WYBC-FM.

During the 1970s, Kapor was employed as a radio disc jockey at WHCN-FM, a commercial progressive rock station based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Kapor subsequently began a career as a mental health counselor at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

In 1980, Kapor left his counseling career to attend the Master's of Science in Management program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, but did not graduate.

Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, Sachs and he designed and developed an integrated spreadsheet and graphing program.

In October 1984 Jim Manzi was named President, and in April 1986 he was named as CEO, succeeding Kapor, who had become inactive in the company.

Mitch Kapor was a founding investor in UUNET Technologies, one of the earliest commercial Internet service providers.

Kapor was the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation at its inception in 2003.

He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health.

In May 2009, after founder Susan P. Crawford had joined the Obama administration, Kapor took over chairmanship of OneWebDay-the " Earth Day for the internet ".

In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup, Foxmarks ( later renamed as Xmarks ), based in San Francisco.

He is married to Freada Kapor Klein and resides in San Francisco.

* Electronic Newsletter of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cambridge, MA-scroll down to Current Legislative and Policy Efforts by Mitchell Kapor.

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4, 732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ( 2007 ) Random House ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9, about Mitch Kapor, collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler.