
Randall Kaplan: The Mind Behind Extreme Preparation
Randall Kaplan has built an entire portfolio of companies over 25 years — from co-founding Akamai Technologies to backing iconic startups and building JUMP Investors. Discover the mindset and methods behind his philosophy of Extreme Preparation. Some people build a single great company. Randall Kaplan has built an entire portfolio of them — and along the way, he has quietly become one of the most respected operators, investors, and coaches in business today. From co-founding a company that helped power the modern internet to backing some of the most iconic startups, Randall Kaplan's story is a masterclass in what he calls Extreme Preparation — the discipline of out-working, out-thinking, and out-preparing everyone in the room.