Review of 'New New Thing : a Silicon Valley Story' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This my 4th stop on my journey to know more about the history of Silicon Valley. This book is about Jim Clarke and it gives me a perfect lens to view the history of SGI, NetScape, Healtheon (all of which was founded by Jim Clarke) through Michael Lewis' writing. It was a really an interesting book to listen to.
I was really suprised to hear Jim being quite scared off Microsoft as a competitor, but given the timeframe of events and the dominance of Microsoft in the PC market, it makes a lot of sense now. I really wish I had more story about NetScape or Marc Andreessen or Jim Barksdale. But major focus of the book was around the formation of Healtheon and the big fucking yacht that Jim was building. Frankly the portion around the boat/yacht was actually irritating and less interesting for me.
Overall it was a …
This my 4th stop on my journey to know more about the history of Silicon Valley. This book is about Jim Clarke and it gives me a perfect lens to view the history of SGI, NetScape, Healtheon (all of which was founded by Jim Clarke) through Michael Lewis' writing. It was a really an interesting book to listen to.
I was really suprised to hear Jim being quite scared off Microsoft as a competitor, but given the timeframe of events and the dominance of Microsoft in the PC market, it makes a lot of sense now. I really wish I had more story about NetScape or Marc Andreessen or Jim Barksdale. But major focus of the book was around the formation of Healtheon and the big fucking yacht that Jim was building. Frankly the portion around the boat/yacht was actually irritating and less interesting for me.
Overall it was a good listen about Jim Clarke, his background and the context on why he is a big thing in Silicon Valley.