Blake Ross
Blake Aaron Ross is the co-founder of Mozilla Firefox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. He was born on June 12, 1985. He is an American Software Engineer and 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. From 2007, he worked for Facebook as Director of Product until resigning in early 2013. In 2015, he wrote a fan fiction original screenplay to the HBO television comedy series Silicon Valley, which gained attention.
Blake was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Key Biscayne, Florida. His mother, Abby Ross, is a psychologist, and his father is a lawyer. He has an older brother and sister. Ross created his first website via America Online at the age of 10. By middle school, an interest in Sim City led him to piece together a couple of rudimentary videogames. He attended high school in Miami at Gulliver Preparatory School, graduating in 2003 while simultaneously working for Mozilla, based in California.
Ross discovered Netscape very soon after it open-sourced and began contributing; his mother's frustrated user experience with Internet Explorer being the main driver. He worked as an intern at Netscape Communications Corporation at the age of 16. In 2003, he enrolled at Stanford University. While interning at Netscape, Ross became disenchanted with the browser he was working on and the direction given to it by America Online, which had recently purchased Netscape. Ross and Hyatt envisioned a smaller, easy-to-use browser that could have mass appeal, and Firefox was born from that idea. The open source project gained momentum and popularity, and in 2003 all of Mozilla's resources were devoted to the Firefox and Thunderbird projects. Released in November 2004, when Ross was 19, Firefox quickly grabbed market share (primarily from Microsoft's Internet Explorer), with 100 million downloads in less than a year.
Ross is the author of Firefox For Dummies; published January 11, 2006).
In 2016, Ross found out that he has a condition known as aphantasia, a rare inability to visualize anything. He wrote:
"I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can’t "see" my father's face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on ten minutes ago. I thought "counting sheep" was a metaphor. I’m 30 years old and I never knew a human could do any of this."
In 2016, Ross found out that he has a condition known as aphantasia, a rare inability to visualize anything. He wrote:
"I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can’t "see" my father's face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on ten minutes ago. I thought "counting sheep" was a metaphor. I’m 30 years old and I never knew a human could do any of this."
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