Micha Benoliel is the cofounder and CEO of San Francisco based, Open Garden, the creator of FireChat, the first off-the-grid messaging app that leverages peer-to-peer mesh networking. Micha has been a pioneer in VoIP and launched several telecommunications services in the past decade. He enabled Skype to start SkypeIn and SkypeOut, the innovation that scaled up its monetization and other premium Skype services. At age 8, Micha taught himself how to code on a flight simulator in Basic on a Zenith PC that his father was using for accounting purposes. Subsequently, he wrote his first games on a Texas Instrument TI 99 4A, ATARI 512ST and Amiga 500.

Innovation, Technology