Steve Kirsch

Steven Todd Kirsch (born December 24, 1956) is an American serial entrepreneur. He has started several companies, including Mouse Systems, Frame Technology Corp., Infoseek and OneID. He was one of two people who coincidentally invented the optical mouse.[1] In 2007, his personal fortune was estimated at $230 million, the majority earned from the IPO of Infoseek and the acquisition of Frame Technology.[2]

Steven T. Kirsch
Born (1956-12-24) December 24, 1956
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forInventing the optical mouse, FrameMaker, founder of Infoseek

Career

Kirsch has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]

In 2005 he founded Abaca, which made a spam filter (for which two reviews commissioned by Abaca reported high accuracy).[4][5]

In September 2011, he started OneID[6] which is creating a user-centric Internet-scale digital identity system that uses public key cryptography to replace usernames and passwords with a single, stable, secure, digital identity that preserves privacy and is compatible with the NSTIC[7] goals.[8]

In Mid-2020, Kirsch founded the Covid-19 Treatment Fund (CETF) to fund research into off-label treatments for Covid-19.[9] In May 2021, Kirsch posted an article online making an unfounded claim that COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility, while also underplaying the vaccines' ability to prevent illness and death.[10] The following month, Kirsch appeared in a YouTube video posted with Bret Weinstein and Robert W. Malone to discuss COVID-19 vaccines. In the video, Kirsch makes several false claims, including that spike proteins used in COVID-19 vaccines are "very dangerous".[11][12]

References
  1. Sherr, Sol (2 December 2012). Input Devices. Elsevier Science. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-323-15643-1.
  3. "Kirsch Foundation: About The Founders". Kirschfoundation.org. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
  4. "Tolly Group Review of Abaca" (PDF). Tolly Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-25. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  5. "Spam Star" (PDF). Network Computing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-25. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  6. "oneid.com". oneid.com. 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  7. "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace". Nist.gov. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  8. Hardy, Quentin (2011-11-03). "OneID Aims to Unite Devices to Fight Hackers". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  9. "This tech millionaire went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  10. Teoh, Flora (June 24, 2021). "COVID-19 vaccines don't affect ovaries or fertility in general; the vaccines are highly effective at preventing illness and death". Health Feedback. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  11. Reuters Fact Check (June 18, 2021). "Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not 'cytotoxic'". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on June 18, 2021. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  12. "No sign that the COVID-19 vaccines' spike protein is toxic or 'cytotoxic'". PolitiFact. June 16, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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