Blake Ross

 

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Blake Ross

Blake Aaron Ross is a Young Successful Entrepreneur Online. He was born on June 12, 1985 at Miami, Florida. He is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser.  At first sight, Blake Ross looks like a common guy until you know that he programmed web site at 10, coded for Netscape at 15, and co-created the Firefox browser at 17.

 He started programming since he was very young and he moved from Florida to California to take an internship with Netscape at aged 15. I think this was an incredible thing for a 15-year-old to do.

 In 2002 Ross and his colleagues decided to start up a new version of Netscape, which remove all the luxury features and go for simplicity, stability and speed. They called the new Firefox browser. When Firefox 2.0 appeared in October, it recorded two million downloads in the first 24 hours. Web surfers are switching to Firefox at the rate of 7 million a month.

Firefox was more secure and faster than Microsoft and unlike Netscape. It is because since it is an open software it continues to be improved by thousands of Programmers around the world. People keep talking and  that makes Firefox spread rapidly.

 

He later founded a new start up with Joe Hewit and created Parakey which is a web operating system that can do everything an O.S can do. Parakey makes it easy to store all your stuff and share it to the world, bridging the gap between your desktop and the web. Ross revealed several technical details about the program and his new company when featured on the cover of IEEE Spectrum in November 2006. By July 2007 Facebook bought Parakey.

 

 

 

             ACHIEVEMENT

 *In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine’s top Rave   Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2005 hot list.
*He featured on the cover of the February Wired magazine as part of their lead story on Firefox’s development.
*Blake Ross is the author of Firefox for Dummies (published January 11, 2006)
He is Currently the Director of Product at Facebook.



   In 2004,  Mozilla Firefox web browser obtain over 100 million downloads in less than a year. This made him a millionaire at 19 then. Though he shares some ownership of the company with associate David Hyatt, one can easily split his net worth in half and he still has more than a majority of his co-owners.