The New New Thing - Michael Lewis

Advantages: Well written insight into the mind of a billionaire
Disadvantages: none

...Lewis sets out to find the worlds most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third billion dollar company, Healtheon. After already successfully navigating his two other companies to entrepreneurial stardom, Silicon Graphics and Netscape, he sets out to create a shake up in the American health care system. Although One would think, that Jim Clark ...
...the planet. His near obsession with his yacht, Hyperion has him in trouble more than a few times as his willingness to spend hours on creating computer programs to run this vessel leads him to entrust the running and the building of the concept which is Healtheon. This story is basically the building of Healtheon and is seen through the eyes of Michael Lewis who was Jim Clarks sidekick for months in order to track Clarks every move. Lewis writes ... Read review

Advantages: entertaining, informative, great insight into Jim Clar
Disadvantages:

Michael Lewis' book about the Internet billionaire Jim Clark is an incisive insight into the man who helped create the boom in Silicon Valley. Lewis writes in an informal witty style, he's followed Jim Clark around trying to get under the skin of the man who created Silicon Graphics, and later went on to found Netscape with Marc Andressen. The book left me with the feeling that Clark is one of those rare people who sees something way ahead of the ... Read review