Michael Homer

[2] After Go closed in 1994, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Go's main venture capital backer, made the connection for Homer at Marc Andreessen's Netscape Communications Corporation.

[2] Homer helped argue that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power in the operating system market to push out Netscape's browser in favor of its own.

[1] Homer fostered the early growth of a series of technology firms, including roles in the development of Google, Tellme Networks and TiVo, and sat on the board of Palm, Inc.[2] In 2007, persistent memory problems he had been experiencing led to a diagnosis of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder.

Several people close to him created "Fight for Mike", an organization that raised $7 million used to fund research in the neurology department of the University of California, San Francisco towards study and potential cure of the disease.

[2] The team at UCSF includes Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his discovery of the prion, misfolded proteins that trigger CJD and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease").