A

Akeley, Kurt, 37, 44, 246

Ameritrade, 248

Anders, George, 176

Anderson, Vern, 42–43

Andreessen, Marc, 69–70, 74, 110, 199, 246

Apollo Computer, 38

Apple Computer, 32

Arnold, Jeff, 244

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), 32

@Home, 23, 39, 93, 220

AT&T, 59, 64

B

Bank Julius Baer, 154, 157

bankers, Swiss, 157, 160

Barksdale, Jim, 191, 245, 253

on Clark, 173

househunting in Silicon Valley, 198

Microsoft antritrust trial, 190, 192–198, 200

Netscape's going public, 73, 199

Barton, Jim, 65

Baskett, Forest, 76

Bell Laboratoriess, 38

Benchmark Capital, 253

Benjamin, Keith, 245

Bezos, Jeff, 248

billionaires, number of, 2

biocomputing, 122

Bocksum, Jan, 140

Braddock, Tina, 202

Buffett, Warren, 166

business models, 254

C

Carnegie–Mellon Institute, 32

Chambers, John, 252

Chart of Many Bubbles, 161, 162, 170, 174, 237

chasing ghosts (engineering term), 223

Chesson, Greg, 39, 46

Chiddix, Jim, 62, 63, 65

Clark, Jim

ambitions, 67–68, 88, 170, 264

appearance, 9, 27, 84

bill paying, dislike of, 250

biocomputing, 122

capital gains tax, dislike of, 250

change agent, 1

childhood and adolescence, 28–29, 262–264

competitiveness, 73, 79, 84, 85, 265–266

computers, first awareness of, 30

conceptual artist, 91, 119

Clark, Jim (continued)

crashed plane, discovery of, 19–21, 24–25

Doerr, John, relationship with, 71, 92–93, 97, 99, 148, 255

doubters, need for, 258

early career, 30–32

education, 29, 30, 86

engineers, importance to him, 13, 39–41, 74, 95, 100–101

engineers, Indian, 104, 111

"entrepreneur," xvi–xvii

foresight, 51, 52, 186–187, 240, 247

Geometry Engine (see Geometry Engine)

Healtheon (see Healtheon)

helicopters, learning to fly, 15–24

hemochromatosis diagnosed, 89

homes, 31, 250

Hyperion (see Hyperion)

impatience, 26

interactive television (see telecomputer)

investment strategy, 156–157

Kramlich, Dick, relationship with, 68, 71, 72, 92, 93, 97, 99

machines, fascination with, 12

managers, dislike of, 49

marriages, 30, 53

mass markets, interest in, 51, 60, 63

mathematical abilities, 30

McCracken, Ed, relationship with, 48–49, 50, 51, 61, 64, 66–67, 73

Microsoft, as nemesis, 50, 58, 88, 93, 119, 167–168, 185–186, 188, 244–245

Microsoft antitrust trial, 184–185, 187, 196–197

money, love of, 112–113, 257–258

Mueller, Glenn, relationship with, 47, 67, 73

multibillion-dollar companies created by, 241

myCFO (see myCFO)

Navy service, 29–30

Netscape (see Netscape)

Netscape Time, 27

New Growth theorist, 40

new new things, his, 32–33, 58, 69–70, 89–90, 152, 250–251

Nigam, relationship with, 55,, 64, 103

"old dog" (self-described), 86

Clark, Jim (continued)

optimist, 258

outsider, 123

the past, lack of interest in, 23, 26–27, 28, 195–196, 259

on people, 18, 143

Ph.D. thesis, 86

pied piper, 70–71, 73, 120, 122–123

Plainview (Texas), visits to, 261

planner, 201

programmer, 57, 86–87, 95, 127, 170, 182, 202, 205

psychological type, 45

public opinion, manipulation of, 256

puckering, significance of his, 18

recruiting strategy, 104

reputation questioned, his, 176–178

retirement plans, 249, 257

revenge as motivator, 67, 154

sailboat captains, relationship with, 81–82

Silicon Graphics (see Silicon Graphics, Inc.)

Silicon Valley, Clark's role in, xviii

sloughs of despond, 31–32, 52–53

software tutors, 56, 108

star power, 120–122

stock brokers, dislike of, 250

success, reason for, 247–248

Swiss bank account application, 153–158

tuba player, 259, 263–264

vehicles owned, 11, 77

venture capitalism, impact on, 95, 150–151

venture capitalists, dislike of, 41, 94, 100, 153, 250

wealth, personal, 12, 79, 155, 157, 234, 240, 246

wealth creation, views on, 13, 40

wealth of his associates, 245–246

ClarkWorld, 144, 147, 177, 184, 198, 245

Competing on Internet Time, 195

computer graphics. See Geometry Engine

computer science, as academic discipline, 32

Conway, Lynn, 33

Cook, Scott, 198