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The book that bottled the dot-com dream — and warned what it would cost. In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis went safari through Silicon Valley hunting the "new new thing" — and found it in Jim Clark, the restless billionaire who founded three groundbreaking companies: Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. Published in 1999 at the boom's height, this is part biography, part adventure story. Lewis — of Liar's Poker fame — follows Clark from hardscrabble Texas childhood to the Netscape IPO that ignited the internet gold rush, and his obsessive quest for the next revolution, even as he builds a computer-designed super-yacht — capturing an era when anything seemed possible.
What Lewis captures better than anyone is the psychology of the boom. The "new new thing" was not just a technology; it was a belief system — the idea that the next great idea was always just around the corner, and that the people who found it first deserved fortunes beyond imagining. Through Clark, you will see how that belief was built: the engineering brilliance, the risk-taking, the impatience with anything old, and the strange mix of idealism and greed that defined the Valley. You will also see its costs: the relationships strained, the fortunes gambled, and the nagging question of what happens when the next new thing stops coming.
Funny, sharp, and endlessly readable: a portrait of an extraordinary entrepreneur and a time capsule of the Valley's wildest dreams — how its culture of risk, reinvention, and relentless optimism was built, and what it costs the people who live it. A classic of business writing and the perfect companion to today's startup age, this ebook shows where the Valley's wildest dreams began. For founders, investors, and anyone trying to understand how Silicon Valley thinks, there is still no better introduction. Get the ebook edition here at a discount from Tellebook.
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