Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Jerry Kaplan, Winster - The Best Time to Start a Company is When Nobody Thinks it's Possible

The Best Time to Start a Company is When Nobody Thinks it's Possible

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Kaplan talks about how most people will work on an idea for a company for 2-3 years before they get the money. The best time to start a company, he notes, is when everybody thinks it is impossible.

Jerry Kaplan Biography

Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, executive, technical innovator, and author. Most recently, he was co-chairman of Egghead.com, Inc. Previously, Mr. Kaplan served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of online auction company Onsale, Inc., which he co-founded in 1994.

Prior to Onsale, he was co-founder and chairman of GO Corporation, which developed PenPoint, a pen-based operating system. Mr. 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.

Before founding GO, Mr. Kaplan was the principal technologist at Lotus Development Corporation, where he co-authored Lotus Agenda, the first personal information management software. In 1981, he co-founded Teknowledge, a public company specializing in artificial intelligence.

Mr. Kaplan received a Bachelor's degree in history and philosophy of scien...

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Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series

2003-10-01

2min 36sec

ID: 372

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