Jerry Kaplan

JERRY KAPLAN, 45, is widely known in the computer industry as an
entrepreneur and technical innovator. Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of
ONSALE, a unique Internet retailing service that adds excitement to the
on-line shopping experience through fast-action auctions. Previously, he
was chairman and co-founder of GO Corporation, which developed PenPoint,
a pen-based operating system. Prior to that, he served as principal
technologist at Lotus Development Corporation, where he co-authored
Lotus Agenda, the first personal information management software. In
1981, Kaplan co-founded Teknowledge, now a public artificial
intelligence company. Kaplan wrote a best-selling book about his
experiences at GO Corporation entitled ‘Startup A Silicon Valley
Adventure’, published in May 1995 by Houghton-Mifflin. Kaplan received a
BA in history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago
and a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of
Pennsylvania.