SeanBlader
July 29th, 2009, 11:43 PM
Netscape Founder “Jim Clark” On Fleeing Silicon Valley
http://www.webguild.org/2009/07/netscape-founder-jim-clark-on-fleeing-silicon-valley-part-3.php
People thought I was nuts until we generated $70 million of revenue in year one, and $300 million in year two. Microsoft killed the company, but at least AOL (TWX) bought us before we expired. Ironically, if Microsoft (MSFT) had focused on how to leverage it, rather than how to kill it, they might be in Google’s position today. Serves them right.
Ironically, just at the time we needed to accelerate to remain competitive in 2000, we elected the worst president in history. He not only focused on all the wrong things — starting wars, religious bigotry and zealotry, letting the financial system go unregulated, etc. — he cut R&D funding for science and technology.
Thanks largely to our insipid political leaders, we stalled for eight of the most important years in the past 100. The U.S. is resilient, but this is a lot to overcome. The world is pretty uniformly covered with smart people — we have no patent on that. And with the Web/Internet now enabling them to learn and grow just as rapidly as us, we are far worse off now than we were in 2000.
I think my long time sigfile describes Bush2 really well.
http://www.webguild.org/2009/07/netscape-founder-jim-clark-on-fleeing-silicon-valley-part-3.php
People thought I was nuts until we generated $70 million of revenue in year one, and $300 million in year two. Microsoft killed the company, but at least AOL (TWX) bought us before we expired. Ironically, if Microsoft (MSFT) had focused on how to leverage it, rather than how to kill it, they might be in Google’s position today. Serves them right.
Ironically, just at the time we needed to accelerate to remain competitive in 2000, we elected the worst president in history. He not only focused on all the wrong things — starting wars, religious bigotry and zealotry, letting the financial system go unregulated, etc. — he cut R&D funding for science and technology.
Thanks largely to our insipid political leaders, we stalled for eight of the most important years in the past 100. The U.S. is resilient, but this is a lot to overcome. The world is pretty uniformly covered with smart people — we have no patent on that. And with the Web/Internet now enabling them to learn and grow just as rapidly as us, we are far worse off now than we were in 2000.
I think my long time sigfile describes Bush2 really well.