Michael Birch
Michael Birch was born on 7 July 1970 in Sawston, a place that gave him his earliest roots in the United Kingdom. A British citizen, he came of age in a country that would form the backdrop for his working life, and he carried that national identity through everything that followed.
He went on to study at Imperial College London, an experience that shaped the educational foundation he brought to his later work. After completing his studies, he pursued a career as an entrepreneur, working in English and building a professional life around that occupation. The path from his studies to his entrepreneurial work represents the core arc of what the record shows about him.
His career as an entrepreneur placed him among those who chose to build and run ventures rather than follow more conventional employment routes. The facts available about his working life are relatively spare — they confirm his occupation and his education, and they establish him as a UK citizen who used English in his professional dealings. That combination of a British upbringing, a London university education, and a career in entrepreneurship defines the shape of his public profile.
Nothing in the available record specifies a date or place of death, and the facts as they stand describe a man born in Sawston in the summer of 1970 who was educated at Imperial College London and worked as an entrepreneur. That is the outline the record supports: a UK citizen whose career followed the path of someone who studied in London and went on to build rather than simply join.
Quotes by Michael Birch

The fundamentals are still sound but the stock has been priced for all their businesses to perform perfectly and we didn't see a lot more upside.

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

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

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

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.


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.

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.

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.

Everyone is nervous. Not many investors were expecting further rate increases, but now stocks are being sold on that basis.