Eric M. Jackson

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Eric M. Jackson
Bornc. 1976 (age 4748)
Education Stanford University (1998)
OccupationCEO/co-founder of CapLinked
Known forFormer 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.

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