Jay Scott Walker (born November 5, 1955) is an American inventor, entrepreneur and chairman of Walker Digital, a privately held research and development lab focused on using digital networks to create new business systems.
Walker is also curator of TEDMED since 2011, and a founder of Priceline.com (now known as Booking Holdings) and Synapse Group, Inc.
In 2000, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion.
By October 2000, his estimated worth was down to $333 million.
As of 2013, he is not on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires.A 1999 Forbes profile of Walker questioned if he was "An Edison for a New Age," noting his reliance on patents as a business model.
Such legal controversy has led some to label Walker a patent troll.
He has been granted 959 U.S.
utility patents as of June 6, 2019.
Businessweek featured him as one of the "Businessweek e.biz 25" in 1999.