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The New New Thing. A Silicon Valley Story. By MICHAEL LEWIS. W. W. Norton & Company. Read the Review. The Boat That Built Netscape. The original plan, which Lord knows didn't mean very much when that plan had been made by Jim Clark, was that we would test the boat quickly in the North Sea and then sail it across the Atlantic Ocean.
Jan 1, 2001 · Lewis's shrewd, often brilliantly funny, narrative provides ahead-of-the-curve observations about the Internet explosion and how the success of Silicon Valley companies is forcing a reassessment of traditional Wall-Street business models. Weaving Clark's story together with that of this new business phenomenon, Lewis has drawn us a map of ...
- Michael J. Lewis
This is an entertaining, readable book that manages to convey a surprisingly clear-eyed picture of today's Silicon Valley. I don't feel that the author overrated his subject, as Clark's achievements would be notable in any context: he started out as a solid technical expert, and subsequently combined a good "nose" for the New New Thing with a Pied-Piper-like ability to attract talented people ...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (1999) is a non-fiction book by Michael M. Lewis. By profiling Internet entrepreneur Jim Clark, Lewis’s book tells the story of Silicon Valley’s rise to power during the 1990s. Lewis portrays Clark as an American hero, a restless genius ever in search of the “New New Thing,” but he also casts a ...
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Oct 17, 1999 · 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. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY OCT 18, 1999 While it purports to look at the business world of Silicon Valley through the lens of one man, that one man, Jim Clark, is so domineering that the book is ...
Book Summary. On the wings of Lewis's celebrated storytelling, the reader takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. 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 ...
