Jerry Kaplan

Jerry Kaplan, 59, is CEO of Winster, Inc., a social community Internet game site where players cooperate, rather than compete. He is widely known as a technologist and entrepreneur, having co-founded several Silicon Valley companies, including Teknowledge, Inc. (an early Artificial Intelligence Company, IPO 1985), GO Corporation (first pen computing company, sold to AT&T 1993), and Onsale.com (first Internet auction house, IPO 1997 and merged with Egghead.com in 1999). Kaplan has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Red Herring, and Upside.

He is a regular commentator on TV and radio, and occasionally lectures at institutions such as Stanford University and UC Berkeley. He is the author of the San Francisco best-seller Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure, a non-fiction novel about his experiences in starting GO Corporation. Kaplan holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Chicago.