Serial entrepreneur Jim Clark’s new thing is saving the oceans – Oceanic Preservation Society

A few years ago, when word got around that Silicon Valley superstar entrepreneur Jim Clark was reinventing himself as, of all things, a luxury high-rise developer in Miami, there were the obligatory cracks about his "new new thing."

Condo towers frankly seemed a comedown for the self-made man whose restless creative energy, brutally frank manner and billionaire success with Silicon Graphics Inc., Netscape and other ventures were chronicled and psychoanalyzed in "The New New Thing," Michael Lewis’ 2000 best-sellerset partly on Clark’s high-tech mega-yacht, the Hyperion.

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By Scott Duke Harris

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