10 Greatest Tech-reads of All Time


5. Name of book: The New New Thing

Author: Michael Lewis

Year: 2001

What it’s about: A graphics expert, Jim Clark grows steadily into one of the most important technology entrepreneurs of the 90s.

What’s great about it: The book shows how the internet boom turned Clark into one of the Valley’s first billionaires, and captures the remarkable moments of the life of the man who founded Silicon Graphics. He went on to mentor Marc Andreessen, who is the icon for uber-entrepreneurship today.