"If Everyone Were Patient, There'd Be No New Companies"
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Michael Lewis' book provides some interesting stories and insights into the important information technology (IT) entrepreneur, Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics, and had a hand in many other IT startups, such as Netscape.
For example, here is more evidence against Buddhism; dissatisfaction drives improvement:
Impatience might be a social vice but, to Clark, it was a commercial virtue. "If everyone was patient," he'd say, "there's be no new companies." (p. 42 of hardback edition; p. 26 of paperback edition)
The reference for the book is:
Lewis, Michael. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
