Philip J. Kaplan (known as Pud) Philip J. Kaplan (known as Pud) is a 25-year-old computer programmer, creator of fuckedcompany.com, and uber-geek. In May 2000, on Memorial Day weekend, Kaplan started his own consultancy, PK Interactive as well as fuckedcompany.com. He emailed the web address to six friends, took off on a planned trip to Rio, and came back to 20,000 new registered users, press interviews, and just a few "cease and desist" letters. Now attracting over 3.5 million unique readers per month and a flurry of press attention, fuckedcompany.com has turned Kaplan into a hero amongst millions of fellow "dilberts" throughout the world - and into a nemesis to dot-com executives and venture capitalists.