The New New Thing

July 31, 2005 on 1:09 am | In Books |

Just finished reading The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis. The book tells the story of how Jim Clark led the field in the founding of big money internet business in the 1990’s. Read this book if you want to know about venture capitalists throwing heaps of money at big ideas, massive egos and a huge sailing boat.

It is a remarkable story of Jim Clarks serial entrepreneurship and his aura in Silicon Valley which made people want to work for him and with him (no wonder, since their stock options would set them up for life).

An interesting thing about this book (at least the edition that I read) is that it was published in 1999 and does not document the subsequent bursting of the dot com bubble. I’d like to know how many of Jim Clarks associates got rid of their shares while they were worth a lot.