The 200 employees who worked overtime for six years with the hopes that their stock options would make them richĪre working elsewhere, some still harboring resentment toward Kaplan and AT&T.ĭuring an interview this week, Kaplan said his major mistake was "not being sufficiently paranoid." The money EO had raised - $40 million from venture capitalists and large corporations - is spent. Less than 10,000 units of the company's product were ever shipped. Today, everything from GO is gone, with the exception of a few thousand EOs that are gathering dust in AT&T's closets and a couple that Kaplan has kept for note taking. In 1987, Kaplan formed GO, whose major product was the EO (Latin for go) Personal Communicator, a thin, tablet-shaped portable computer. Instead of typing, a user would write on the screen. Working at Lotus Development Corp., Kaplan got the idea that the next generation of computers would be hand-held digital notepads.
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