Synopsis
Book review for bestselling nonfiction writer Michal Lewis's "The New New Thing," which focused on serial entrepreneur Jim Clark. The stupendous success of Clark's 1995 Netscape IPO, Lewis argues, revolutionized Silicon Valley's economy. "Having a past actually counted against a company, for a past was a record and a record was a sign of a company's limitations," he writes. "Never mind that you weren't actually making money--there'd be time for that later, assuming someone eventually figured out how to make money from the Internet .... The most appealing companies became those in a state of pure possibility." Sounds kinda familiar, 25 years later. ( ;-)}
