A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis
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In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important Technology, entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billiondollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the result—the bestselling book The New...
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