Eric M. Jackson, is the CEO and co-founder of CapLinked, a Los Angeles-based startup that makes investing into private companies easy, secure, and social. CapLinked provides companies, investors, and their advisors with tools to network, manage a capital raise or asset sale, and exchange updates.

Jackson previously ran the marketing team at PayPal, where he was responsible for the campaign to monetize the online payment service. Following PayPal’s acquisition by eBay, Jackson founded World Ahead Media, a publisher that was acquired by WorldNetDaily in 2008.

His book, The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth, won the Writers Notes Book Award and was hailed by Tom Peters as “”the best description of ‘business strategy’ unfolding in a world changing at warp speed. Jackson advises startups on their strategy, product marketing, and funding. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at LBTEC and the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship.

An outspoken advocate of personal liberty, Jackson has appeared on Fox News, CNN, ABC News, MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” and numerous other TV and radio programs. He has been quoted in publications such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The New York Times, and BusinessWeek. Jackson has lectured for the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation, and has been a featured speaker at Freedom Fest and the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. He earned a degree in economics with honors from Stanford University.