Mitch Kapor Quotes
I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.
Kapor, Mitchell. Speech at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Kapor Center, 2005.
Many argued that it had been tried and found wanting. Mr. Chubb’s company had been awarded many contracts to operate public schools in competition with the school board. A number of these were cancelled or not renewed based on a perception of poor competitive performance.
The mayor had eliminated an independent Board of Education and obtained more control of the Chicago Public Schools and instituted long needed reforms.
This was his explanation of why so many school board bond issues are voted down. Others point out that this happens in communities where faith has not been lost but the citizens simply do not think the community can afford the expense or the effect on the community’s credit rating.
Mitchell David Kapor is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as an application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry, 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. In 2003, Kapor became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox. Kapor has been an investor in the personal computing industry, and supporter of social causes via Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center. Kapor and his wife, Freada Kapor Klein, invest 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. Kapor and Klein take a comprehensive approach to removing barriers in education and the workplace for all and fixing the leaks at every stage of the tech pipeline. Kapor serves on the board of SMASH, a non-profit founded by Klein to help underrepresented scholars hone their STEM knowledge while building the networks and skills for careers in tech and the sciences.
