From 65438 to 0944, Clark was born in plain View, Texas, and spent his childhood there. In 1950s, his ambition was similar to that of many boys in that era: owning his own sports car. He never thought that he would become a billionaire one day and was known as a visionary business leader.
As a teenager, he was ashamed of his parents' divorce and his failure to graduate from high school. 16 years old, dropped out of school. After I was 20 years old, I began to distance myself from those troubled young people. As a computer programmer, he works day and night to support his new family. At the same time, he studied hard and got three degrees. Including a doctorate in computer science. Later, he had to prove his new idea of computer graphics, which was quickly verified in SGI. This is his first adventure. Then the success of Netscape further proves that SGI is not a fluke.
Clark's genius lies in his insight into the future development trend Once we catch the trend, we will set up a company decisively and organize a group of talents to develop. "Entrepreneurs believe that they can create the future." Anderson, one of the founders of Netscape, said: "Especially for Clark, this sentence is beyond doubt."
1999, he went public in the company Healtheom founded by 1996. The company mainly provides online medical data transmission for doctors and hospitals. This company stands out in the noisy stock market. Clark completed an unprecedented miracle and founded three highly successful technology companies with different styles, with a market value of more than $654.38 billion. Earlier, he said, "At that time, no one would say that Clark was just lucky."
Analysts believe that the market positioning of Healtheom is clear, and a new revolution has taken place in the health care business through online transmission of patient information. Of course, everything has yet to be proved. The Santa Clara-based company lost12.2 million dollars in the second quarter of 1998, while its operating income was only 22 million dollars. Gartner Group analysts believe that Healtheom has good management and first-class technology, but it will take some time for the health care industry to accept the networked service model: "We know that the opportunity is ahead, but I don't know when it will come."
Clark is not short of money. His wealth has reached $2.5 billion. However, the success of Healtheom's initial public listing can make it more firmly occupy a very high position in the pantheon of high-tech myths, which is second only to Apple's Steve Jobs, Intel's Grove and Microsoft's Bill Gates. "Clark will be one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley in the next 20 years." Forest basket forecast. He is the chief technology officer of SGI and Clark's former academic research colleague at Stanford University.
Of course, he will not be remembered as a saint. His six-foot typical Texan identity often growls when he is angry. For example, barksdale, CEO of Netscape, found in his first week in office: "He screams for a while and growls for a while." Barksdale told Clark that he couldn't stand this behavior any longer. "That was his last attack," he added.
Clark has always understood his shortcomings. During his tenure as SGI's chairman, he fought with the then CEO Ed McCracken, forcing many key employees to leave him. After he was in charge of operating Netscape for nine months, he realized that management was not his strong point, and he let his carefully selected CEO operate according to his own intentions. Barksdale said that his employment contract stipulated that if Clark interfered in internal affairs, he had the right to let Clark resign as chairman.
"If you don't manage the company yourself, you'd better not tell him what to do in the future and tell him which hill to capture." Clark said. In fact, after the company took off, Clark only served as a consultant to the company's management and engineering team.