The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story - Hardcover

Lewis, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393048136 ISBN 13: 9780393048131

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The strange, unlikely story of Silicon Valley is told through the life of one of it's greatest achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar miracle company. Tour.

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"It is a splendid, entirely satisfying book, intelligent and fun and revealing and troubling in the correct proportions, resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical..." -- Kurt Andersen "[R]emarkable...Clark proves to be a character as enthralling as any in American fiction or non-fiction...Lewis tells a great story in this book, with prose that ranges from the beautiful to the witty to the breathtaking." -- Fred Moody "[A] superb book...[Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker." -- Joshua Quittner "The most significant business story since the days of Henry Ford... Lewis achieves a novelistic elegance." "Michael Lewis takes readers inside the now-familiar world of Silicon Valley excess, the frantic deal making, the absurdly hyped expectations, the phenomenal wealth. But the 39-year old best-selling author of Liar's Poker and The Money Culture brings something genuinely exotic to the mix: near-total access to one of the Valley's biggest and most enigmatic players."

Reseña del editor

Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat . . . not just an ordinary yacht, but the world's largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup. On the wings of Lewis's celebrated storytelling, the reader takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Clark tries to persuade the investment bankers that Healtheon is the next Microsoft; we get queasy as Clark pits his boat against the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. And in every brilliant anecdote and character sketch, Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393048136
• ISBN 13: 9780393048131
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
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