One last Apprentice post

A reader sent me some background on the winner, Kelly. More grist for the mill. It doesn’t surprise me that Kelly has some dotcom arrows in his back. Thanks Justin!

This Kelly Perdew guy is a dot-com veteran:

You start from here and you Google every name and you will get a good idea where he went/what he did/with whom/when besides his “official resume”.

http://www.kellyperdew.com/proreferences.htm

So he basically started as a West Point graduate. Gets his MBA and Law from UCLA, goes to Deloitte, joins a video conferencing equipment company and starts an event management company called K12.

Then he ends up as a “Senior Vice President, Business Development” at eTeamz, that won the UCLA Business Plan competition and obtained $5 million VC funding (founder/CEO Brian Johnson, now 29). 2000/2001, the company got into trouble, hired Steve Wynne (Adidas USA president) http://www.telezoo.com/press/wsjpress.asp as CEO and sold the company to Active.com (apparently in the 10 digits). Kelly claims to be acting president at the time of sale, so Wynne probably left before the sale.

Kelly then founded LayoffLounge.com with Jeremy Gocke http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in\_depth/sci\_tech/2000/dot\_life/1368739.stm in about 2001 offering “pink slip” networking events and franchising the concept around the US… some time between then and now, he starts MotorPride.com with Jon Kraft (Jon founded Stanford Technology Group (Hummer Winblad/Sequoia) and SavageBeast Technology (Garage, Labrador, Walden)). http://www.coreobjects.com/data/medent.htm

In March 03, Kelly and Jon joined CoreObjects as COO of US Operations and SVP of Sales and Marketing: http://www.socaltech.com/archive/030328.html .. CoreObjects is a software outsourcing house (to India) which developed some software for Stamps.com.

With Perdew on board, I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump makes some major Internet “real estate investments” in 05 :-)