Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley and discusses the future of American business and free enterprise through the life of Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon.
The strange, unlikely story of Silicon Valley is told through the life of one of it's greatest achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar miracle company. Tour.
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the worlds most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the resultthe best-selling book The New New Thingis an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution.