Mike Homer

Mike Homer appears in Ron Conway on Founder Advocacy, Angel Investing, and the Internet’s First Wave as Ron Conway’s path into Netscape. Conway says Homer was consulting for Netscape, later became VP of marketing, and helped the company survive and thrive during the browser war with Microsoft.

In Conway’s account, Homer is a culture and ecosystem figure. He helped make Netscape’s intense “work hard, play hard” environment legible to Conway, and Conway later remembered him at a Netscape anniversary event after Homer developed CJD and died.

Connections

• Netscape, Jim Clark, and Mark Andreessen - company and browser context.
• Ron Conway and SV Angel - investor-network context.
• Netscape Platform Ecosystem and Browser As Internet Unlock - source concepts connected to Homer’s role.
• Open Source Startup Cost Collapse - infrastructure shift Conway associates with Netscape’s era.