Micha Benoliel

At age 8, I taught himself how to code on a flight simulator in Basic on a Zenith PC that my father was using for accounting purposes. Subsequently, I wrote my first games on a Texas Instrument TI 99 4A, ATARI 512ST and Amiga 500. I have been a pioneer in VoIP and launched several telecommunications services in the past decade. I enabled Skype to start SkypeIn and SkypeOut, the innovation that scaled up its monetization and other premium Skype services.
In 2011, I co-founded Open Garden to build a new generation of mobile networks leveraging the smartphone infrastructure.
Open Garden is the creator of FireChat, the first off-the-grid messaging app, leveraging peer-to-peer mesh networking technologies.