Founders

What I learned from rereading The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:23] Maybe somewhere in a footnote, it would be mentioned that he came from nothing, grew up poor, dropped out of high school, and made himself three or four billion dollars.[7:41] She explained that the shares in Netscape that Clark had given them had made them rich."And you have to understand," she said, “that when this happened, we were poor. I was ready to cook the cat."I assumed this was a joke, and laughed. I assumed wrong.[12:48] He was expelled from school and left town.  One time he came home talking about nothing but computers. No one in Plainview had even seen a computer except in the movies.[13:21] I remember him telling me when he came back from the Navy, ‘Mama, I’m going to show Plainview.’[14:42] In under eight years this person, considered unfit to graduate from high school, had earned himself a Ph.D. in Computer Sc