The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

Michael Lewis

Oct 1999 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this ebook

New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”—Time 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 billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the result—the best-selling book The New New Thing—is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution.

Ratings and reviews

A guy named Jim Clark founded three billion-dollar companies (Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon, a health-information provider) - brilliant and difficult, but not that fascinating to read about. Not as fun as I'd hoped.

I am starting to read this one. I can't figure if it is fiction or fact or an historical fiction? Right now it is reading like fiction, a sea story like Moby Dick.

For someone looking for context of today's tech industry, this might be essential reading.

About the author

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.