Michael Birch Quotes

United Kingdom, Computer Scientist
July 7, 1970

Michael Birch OBE is a British computer programmer and entrepreneur. Birch has helped co-found several startups including Blab, BirthdayAlarm.com, Ringo.com, and social networking site, Bebo. Birch sold Bebo, his most lucrative business, to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million. Later he purchased the company back for $1 million. Birch has made several large donations to charitable organizations, including charity:water.

Also known as Entrepreneur

Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

Michael Birch
- Simple
- Alarms
- Site
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

Michael Birch
- People
- Daughter
- Accounts

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Michael Birch
- Thinking
- Games
- Playing
Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

Michael Birch
- People
- Edgy
- Edginess
I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

Michael Birch
- Want
- Running
- Ambition
I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Michael Birch
- Way
- Persons
- Wanted
I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

Michael Birch
If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

Michael Birch
- Time
- Mean
- Needs