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Michael Homer dies - key exec at Netscape

Bernadette Tansey, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

 

 

 

 

Michael Homer, an influential Silicon Valley mentor and key executive at

Netscape during the " browser wars " against giant competitor Microsoft in the

mid-1990s, died Sunday at his home in Atherton. He was 50.

Mr. Homer was diagnosed in 2007 with a rare neurodegenerative disorder called

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, leading his fellow high-tech pioneers to rally in

support of brain research.

" He was brilliantly smart, with a super-high IQ and an encyclopedic grasp of the

industry, " said Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Netscape Communications with Jim

Clark in 1994. The co-founders had " a business plan written on the back of

napkins, " so Mr. Homer was recruited to reinforce the new management team,

Andreessen said. Mr. Homer, a veteran of Apple Computer Inc., wrote Netscape's

formal business plan, built the financial model and created the marketing

strategy for the young Mountain View company.

 

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....Donations can be made to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Foundation at

www.cjdfoundation.org.

 

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