By Michael Lewis
New York Times Bestseller. “A brilliant ebook. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as exciting and intelligible as he made Wall highway in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”―Time
within the bizarre glow of the demise millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari via Silicon Valley to discover the world’s most vital know-how entrepreneur. He came across this in Jim Clark, a guy whose achievements comprise the founding of 3 separate billion-dollar businesses. Lewis additionally stumbled on even more, and the result―the best-selling ebook The New New Thing―is an ingeniously conceived background of the net revolution.
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His Honor blushed. What may well he say? He was once a legal professional. And this guy was once worthy $100 million. the single guy who might peer down upon Barksdale with an identical Olympian disdain as Barksdale peered down upon attorneys wasn’t current to take action. yet he made a dramatic visual appeal. Clark didn’t are available individual; he spent the early days of the Microsoft trial speeding to prepared his boat to pass the Atlantic Ocean. yet his photograph seemed at the mammoth reveal within the court docket, and he replied a number of questions in a tone that prompt that folks who labored as legal professionals for Microsoft couldn't start to comprehend the hot new factor. “You evidently aren’t a businessman,” he stated mockingly at one element. Bidnessman. The legislation alterations every little thing it touches, even if, and it now did so in a manner for which Clark was once sick ready, via probing his earlier. the yankee felony approach unfolded the card packing containers beside the previous tuba in Clark’s visitor bed room and went digging for damning facts. Up till then Microsoft’s protection used to be now not even more than a gloriously indiscriminate, flailing assault on Netscape. It consisted of 4 arguments. (1) Microsoft by no means bullied Netscape, in particular no longer within the serious June 21, 1995, assembly among the 2 businesses that had encouraged Jim Clark to name the dep. of Justice within the first position. (2) no matter if Microsoft did bully Netscape in that assembly, the assembly used to be “a setup” to border Microsoft for an antitrust swimsuit. (3) Microsoft couldn't in all probability be held chargeable for Netscape’s failure, simply because Netscape hadn’t failed; it used to be nonetheless a marketplace chief and a strong innovator in net browser know-how. (4) Netscape had failed badly, yet via its personal ineptitude. As facts of this final element Microsoft’s attorney brought a brand new ebook via Harvard enterprise tuition professors, known as Competing on web Time. The professors argued that Netscape courted catastrophe from the beginning, through taunting Microsoft. “Mooning the large” was once what the company university professors had referred to as this tactic. Clark had mooned the large, first through pertaining to Microsoft in public as “the loss of life megastar” after which by means of allowing his twenty-two-year-old affiliate, Marc Andreessen, to gloat to newshounds that Netscape may placed Microsoft into chapter 11. Barksdale followed a self-deprecating tone. every time the Microsoft attorneys got down to argue how profitable Netscape remained, Jim Barksdale attempted to keep up pretty well the other. And so the spectators witnessed the strange spectacle of 2 businesses, either keenly acutely aware that they have been in a line of labor the place the notion of luck resulted in good fortune and the notion of failure to failure, bad-mouthing themselves. The rhetoric of the court docket was once practically the other of the rhetoric of the enterprise international. The trick for Microsoft was once to cajole the pass judgement on that it didn’t have a monopoly with out additionally persuading the inventory industry. The trick for Netscape was once to prevent seeming pathetic. after which Jim Clark entered the court docket. a guy who cared extra approximately his prior may have coated his tracks.