“A rip-roaring profile of the high-rolling technology entrepreneur Jim Clark, and the strange Silicon Valley subculture in which he thrives, from one of our best business journalists. . . . Funny, feverishly romantic business reporting in which the American lust for wealth becomes a Byronic quest for the next dream that will change the world.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Also by Michael Lewis
Boomerang
The Big Short
Home Game
The Blind Side
Coach
Moneyball
Next
Losers
The Money Culture
Pacific Rift
Liar's Poker
Edited by Michael Lewis
Panic
Copyright © 2000 by Michael Lewis
All rights reserved
First published as a Norton paperback 2014
New York, NY 10110
Composition by Julia Druskin.
Book design by Chris Welch.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
The new new thing: a Silicon Valley story / Michael Lewis.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-393-04813-6
1. Clark, Jim, 1944–. 2. Businessmen—United States Biography. 3. Computer software industry—United States—History. I. Title.
HD9696.63.U62C585 1999
338.4'70053'092—dc21
[B]
99-43412
CIP
ISBN 978-0-393-34781-4 pbk.
eISBN 978-0-393-06621-0
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110
www.wwnorton.com
W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Preface
1 The Boat That Built Netscape
2 The Accelerated Grimace
3 The Past in a Box
4 Disorganization Man
5 Inventing Jim Clark
6 The Boom and the Mast
7 Throwing Sand in Capitalists’ Eyes
8 The Great Brain Quake of August 9, 1995
9 The Home of the Future?
10 God Mode
12 New New Money
13 Cheese Sandwiches for Breakfast
14 Could Go Either Way
15 At Sea in the Home of the Future
16 Chasing Ghosts
17 The Turning Point
18 The New New Thing
19 The Past outside the Box
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
More Praise for The New New Thing
Also by Michael Lewis
Copyright