The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Books | Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship
3.6
Michael Lewis
New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”—Time In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s 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 result—the best-selling book The New New Thing—is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution.
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Author
Michael Lewis
Pages
272
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date
1999-10-17
ISBN
0393066215 9780393066210
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"This my 4th stop on my journey to know more about the history of Silicon Valley. This book is about Jim Clarke and it gives me a perfect lens to view the history of SGI, NetScape, Healtheon (all of which was founded by Jim Clarke) through Michael Lewis' writing. It was a really an interesting book to listen to.<br/><br/>I was really suprised to hear Jim being quite scared off Microsoft as a competitor, but given the timeframe of events and the dominance of Microsoft in the PC market, it makes a lot of sense now. I really wish I had more story about NetScape or Marc Andreessen or Jim Barksdale. But major focus of the book was around the formation of Healtheon and the big ******* yacht that Jim was building. Frankly the portion around the boat/yacht was actually irritating and less interesting for me.<br/><br/>Overall it was a good listen about Jim Clarke, his background and the context on why he is a big thing in Silicon Valley."
Santhosh Guru