Eric M. Jackson

Eric M. Jackson is the co-founder of CapLinked, focused on linking companies and investors.[1] He was founder and former CEO of WND Books (formerly World Ahead Publishing) and a former vice president of marketing at PayPal. He is one of the PayPal Mafia, a growing number of PayPal alumni who have started new ventures after eBay bought the online payments firm.[2]

Eric M. Jackson
Bornc. 1976 (age 43–44)
EducationStanford University (1998)
OccupationCEO/co-founder of CapLinked
Known forFormer VP of marketing at PayPal

Career

In 1998, Jackson received a B.A. in Economics with honors from Stanford University.[3] He served on the board of directors of The Stanford Review.[4] Jackson maintains the book publishing industry blog called Conservative Publisher.[5]

As a publisher, Jackson was known for embracing controversial books and tactics. A bestselling children's book published by World Ahead, Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under my Bed penned by Katharine Debrecht, portrayed Hillary Clinton as a cartoon villain, prompting a verbal clash with Clinton's spokesman. Jackson once accused Google of political bias for censoring online ads for a book critical of Bill Clinton, a charge Google denied,[6] and he later paid for an event headlined by Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library along with the book's author.[7]

Jackson's own book The PayPal Wars (ISBN 0-9746701-0-3) chronicles PayPal's origins and discusses the legal, regulatory, and competitive threats entrepreneurs must overcome in today's business environment.[8] It won the 2005 Writers Notes Book Award for best business book.[9] It has been profiled by Reason Magazine,[10] the Washington Times,[11] the Mises Institute,[12] Tech Central Station,[13] and Tom Peters.[14]

Jackson frequently appears as a conservative commentator on radio and television programs. In his public comments he is frequently critical of eBay, the company that purchased PayPal. He has been quoted in Forbes,[15] BusinessWeek,[16] TheStreet.com,[17] US News & World Report,[18] and Publishers Weekly, [19] among other publications.

gollark: Well, if you don't like it, YOU try convincing it to generate happy pictures of frolicking foxes.
gollark: This is actually fairly pleasant.
gollark: Here is its rendering of dale.
gollark: This is some kind of unholy foxbee abomination.
gollark: <@854350605702660106> Fixed the link: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1qR577747CnpqUZA2cMXUi3Iym9S-AD5g?usp=sharing

References
  1. "Eric Jackson". caplinked.com. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  2. "The PayPal Exodus". Forbes. July 12, 2006.
  3. Jackson, Eric M. (June 6, 2003). "Stanford: Where Does the Money Go?". Stanford Review. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
  4. Archived April 8, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "ConservativePublisher.com". conservativepublisher.blogspot.com. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  6. "Google Defends Not Running Anti-Clinton Banners - Direct Marketing News". dmnews.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  7. "Clinton's Accusers Tour His Library". Fox News. October 26, 2005.
  8. "Shopping". paypalwars.com. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  9. "2005 Writers Notes Book Awards Announced". PRWeb. March 30, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  10. "Who Killed PayPal? - Reason Magazine". reason.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  11. http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "20th-century evils, Silicon Valley wars". washingtontimes.com. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  12. "The Genius and Struggle of PayPal". Mises Daily. January 4, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  13. "Tech Central Station". www.techcentralstation.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  14. "PayPal - tompeters!". tompeters.com. Archived from the original on November 11, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  15. "PayPal's Growing Pains". Forbes. April 14, 2005.
  16. "PayPal Spreads Its Wings". businessweek.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2005. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  17. "eBay Grooms Another Phenom - The Signal and The Noise News - Print Financial & Investing Articles - TheStreet". thestreet.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  18. "Washington Whispers - US News and World Report". usnews.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  19. "'Liberals' Selling Right and Left". Publishers Weekly. October 21, 2005. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
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