Michael Birch

Michael Birch is a British computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking site Bebo with his wife Xochi Birch in 2005. He is best known for selling Bebo to AOL in 2008 for $850 million and later buying it back in 2013 for $1 million before selling it to Twitch in 2019. He currently serves as Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno, a startup studio he has led since 2010, and is also the co-founder of the San Francisco members' club The Battery. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2015 for services to technology and online services.