The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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Author: Michael Lewis

ISBN-10: 1423371399

ISBN-13: 9781423371397

Category: Business Biography - Specific Individuals

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In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape-which launched the Information Age-and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head. The New York Times Book Review - Kurt Andersen A splendid, entirely satisfying book, intelligent and fun and revealing and troubling in the correct proportions, resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical, brimming with fabulous scenes as well as sharp analysis....[R]eads, for most of us, like fiction in the best sense, providing character revelation and narrative surprises all along the way....Lewis conveys with a rare combination of wisdom and glee both the thrill and absurdity of late-20th century business.

Preface 1. The Boat That Built Netscape 2. The Accelerated Grimace 3. The Pastin a Box 4. Disorganization Man 5. Inventing Jim Clark 6. The Boom and the Mast 7. Throwing Sand in Capitalists' Eyes 8. The Great Brain Quake of August 9, 1995 9. The Home of the Future? 10. God Mode 11. How Chickens Become Pork 12. New New Money 13. Cheese Sandwiches for Breakfast 14. Could Go Either Way 15. At Sea in the Home of the Future 16. Chasing Ghosts 17. The Turning Point 18. The New New Thing 19. The Past outside the Box Epilogue Acknowledgments