Oral History of Steve Kirsch

Interviewed by Gunter Steinbach and Marc Weber on 2016-10-11 in Mountain View, CA X7976.2017
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Steve Kirsch invented an early form of the optical mouse while studying at MIT, then founded Mouse Systems to commercialize it. In 1986 he co-founded Frame Technology which developed the FrameMaker document publishing software.
His next start-up was Infoseek in 1993, pioneering advertising-supported Internet search. In 1999 he started Propel which sold web-page compression and caching software, followed in 2005 by Abaca, which produced a spam filter application with ranked quarantine.
In 2011 he started OneID which tried to get strong cryptographic authentication universally adopted. As of 2018, his latest start-up is Token, founded in 2015, which sells an open banking software platform. He has received awards for philantropic giving and for encouraging others to give.
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Lot number: X7976.2017
Catalog number: 102717224

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Steve Kirsch is a hero

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Finally I meet the creator of info seek search engine

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Oh hi, it’s Steve.

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Funny how his recent interview with over a million views isn’t anywhere in the top results when you search his name…

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Legend!!