# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-kaplan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:48:47.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-kaplan"
name: "Jerry Kaplan"
slug: "jerry-kaplan"
description: "Samuel Jerrold \"Jerry\" Kaplan is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his work on pen computing and tablet computers. He is the founder of numerous companies, including GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC. Kaplan is the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months prior to eBay. He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award and author of the book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Kaplan is also the author of the 2015 book Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Additional companies he has co-founded include artificial intelligence company Teknowledge, Inc. and social game website Winster.com. Kaplan was briefly a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Kaplan_in_2014.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1952-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.65
  momentum:             6.627906976744184
  historical:           7.015696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AC%9D%E5%88%A9%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E6%99%AE%E8%98%AD"
    title: "謝利·卡普蘭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kaplan"
    title: "Jerry Kaplan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جيري كابلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kaplan"
    title: "Jerry Kaplan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kaplan"
    title: "Jerry Kaplan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジェリー・カプラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Kaplan"
    title: "Hieronymus Kaplan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kaplan"
    title: "Jerry Kaplan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16151794"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump