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American businessman
Eric M. Jackson
Born
c. 1976 (age 47–48) Education
Stanford University (1998) Occupation CEO/co-founder of CapLinked Known for Former
VP of marketing at
PayPal
Eric M. Jackson is the co-founder of
CapLinked , a project management and business transaction company.
[1] He is founder and former CEO of World Ahead Publishing (which was purchased by
WorldNetDaily in 2007), and is 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]
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]
In 2005, Jackson accused
Google of political bias for removing online ads for a book critical of
Bill Clinton . Google responded that no previously-approved ads had been removed.
[6]
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.
[7] It has been profiled by
Reason Magazine ,
[8]
The Washington Times ,
[9] the
Mises Institute ,
[10]
Tech Central Station ,
[11] and
Tom Peters .
[12]
Jackson appears as a conservative commentator on
radio and
television programs. He has been quoted in
Forbes ,
[13]
BusinessWeek ,
[14]
TheStreet.com ,
[15]
U.S. News & World Report ,
[16] and
Publishers Weekly ,
[17] among other publications.
References
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"Eric Jackson" . caplinked.com . Archived from
the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"The PayPal Exodus" . Forbes . July 12, 2006.
^ 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 .
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[1]
Archived April 8, 2005, at the
Wayback Machine
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"ConservativePublisher.com" . conservativepublisher.blogspot.com . Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"Google Defends Not Running Anti-Clinton Banners - Direct Marketing News" . dmnews.com . Archived from
the original on November 2, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"Shopping" . paypalwars.com . Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"Who Killed PayPal? - Reason Magazine" . reason.com . Archived from
the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"20th-century evils, Silicon Valley wars" . The Washington Times . Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"The Genius and Struggle of PayPal" . Mises Daily . January 4, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2012 .
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"Tech Central Station" . www.techcentralstation.com . Archived from
the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"PayPal - tompeters!" . tompeters.com . Archived from
the original on November 11, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"PayPal's Growing Pains" . Forbes . April 14, 2005. Archived from
the original on September 18, 2012.
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"PayPal Spreads Its Wings" . businessweek.com . Archived from
the original on August 26, 2005. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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"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 .
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"Washington Whispers - U.S. News & World Report" . usnews.com . Archived from
the original on March 25, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
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" '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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