Michael Homer – Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!

Biography

Homer was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1958 and was awarded a bachelor’s diploma on the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007, persistent memory points he had been experiencing led to a evaluation of Creutzfeldt–Jakob sickness, a extremely unusual and incurable degenerative neurological dysfunction. Several people close to him created “Fight for Mike”, an organization that raised $7 million used to fund evaluation inside the neurology division of the University of California, San Francisco in path of analysis and potential therapy of the sickness. The group at UCSF consists of Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his discovery of the prion, misfolded proteins that set off CJD and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow disease”). The group at UCSF was studying the utilization of Quinacrine, prolonged used as an antimalarial drug, inside the treatment of CJD..

After Go closed in 1994, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Go’s necessary enterprise capital backer, made the connection for Homer at Marc Andreessen’s Netscape Communications Corporation. Homer was a vp on the Netscape inside the Nineties on the dawn of the World Wide Web. There, Homer developed the company’s preliminary advertising technique and carried out a pivotal place in buying the private financing compulsory to allow the company to progress to its 1995 preliminary public offering. He developed promoting and advertising plans for Netscape in 1994 at a time when few people had ever heard of the Internet. During the interval the place Microsoft challenged Netscape’s early browser dominance with its Internet Explorer product, Homer headed the company’s promoting and advertising division as a result of it confronted bitter opponents from Microsoft, an issue that lastly resulted in an antitrust swimsuit. Homer helped argue that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power inside the working system market to push out Netscape’s browser in favor of its private.

Homer died at age 50 on February 1, 2009 in Atherton, California. He was survived by his partner, three children, his mother and sister. The science coronary heart at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton is called after him.