In 1987, he and his wife Joan Blades co-founded Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company.
[6][3][7] Native to Berkeley, California,[7] he was active with computers at age 14, then later dropped out of college to pursue his interest in software design.
[3] In 1990, he was Berkeley Systems president, and had been working with Marc Sutton on software to aid sight-impaired computer users.
[3] A one-sentence petition to move on from the Clinton scandal was first sent to several-hundred friends and family, and "very shortly" they had half a million people involved.
[11] The site moveon.org appeared September 18, 1998 with the sole purpose of building a petition to express disapproval of Bill Clinton, call for a "quick censure" and move on to other issues.
[11] In 2000, the organization petitioned Ralph Nader to drop out of the 2000 presidential race so he wouldn't draw votes from Al Gore.