Walker’s company Walker Digital was founded in 1994, which is based in Connecticut. He is famously known as ‘The Edison of New Age’. He has been granted as many as 719 US utility patents that makes him one of the most creative and innovative inventors alive. The company often partners with Fortune 500 firms to license its innovations which also are responsible for bringing the innovation into the market.

Jay Walker is married to Eileen McManus since 1982, with two kids. She is a trustee at Cornell University and Vice Chairman at Harvey School in New York. She has been a formal employee at IBM. Jay Walker himself is a licensed pilot. He has been a devoted husband ever since and is not known to have any affairs outside his marriage. There have been no rumors of any sort of post marriage girlfriend. Walker attended Cornell University and graduated in Industrial and Labor Relations in 1978.

He has been a founder of numerous networks of businesses that uses digital technology for their businesses for instance Synapse Group which uses credit cards for magazine subscriptions. It increased the rate of subscription. Synapse was also named one of the best companies to work in America in 2004 and 2005 by the Great Place to Work Institute amongst medium sized companies.

Walker’s best known as a founder of priceline.com which is a self-funded start-up company. It changed the definition of travelling. With a huge number of members increasing day by day, Priceline.com now is a billion dollar public company. Currently, it has a $50 billion market capital and still growing.

TEDMED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an innovation summit for healthcare held every year to bring together know who’s of various fields like business, medicine and technology to exchange ideas and find solution to some critic problems in the world relating to medicine. Walker works as a chairman and a partner at TEDMED. Walker has been a frequent speaker and a genuine believer in this summit.

Walker has also been associated with the Young Presidents Organization for years now and has been a frequent contributor of ideas. YPO’s core mission is to develop “Better Leaders Through Education and Idea Exchange.”

In the field of entertainment, Jay Walker started a strategic partnership with the world’s greatest casino games manufacturer, International Game Technology to develop innovative technologies of networked slot machined and other casino games. The result was ‘Guaranteed Play’.

His net worth has been estimated at around $333 million.

He has been credited with many innovations in his hat and has served as an inspiration figure for many. He was named by the editors of TIME magazine as one of the “50 most influential business leaders in the digital age.” He also was selected by Businessweek as amongst ‘25 internet pioneers who changed the landscape of almost every industry in the world’.