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1、Ride the Internet Wave
“As a practical matter he had no past only a future.
That’s when he really came alive
when you got him on the subject
of what was going to happen next.”
So writes Michael Lewis of Jim Clark in his new bestseller
The New New Thing about the people
in the place of the fu
2、ture Silicon Valley.
The new new thing—it’s the thing to do these days:
come up with an idea，start an Internet company
and get filthy rich.
Even though Yale University junior Joshua Newman
doesn’t quite have Clark’s billions,
Lewis could have been writing about Newman.
This Internet wonder ki
3、d
has already launched two start-ups and he,
like Clark, comes alive when you get him talking
about the possibilities of the future.
Newman grew up in Palo Alto C.A.,
the Internet Mecca of the world,
but he entered Yale with no business experience
and certainly no intention
of someday starti
4、ng his own company.
“If you told my parents
then that I’d be doing something like this,”
Newman says,
“there would have been mild shock and incredulity.”
It was during his freshman year at Yale
that Newman met David Fischer,
then a junior and the two of them began playing around
with the id
5、ea of starting their own business.
Newman’s first start up with Fischer was Sharkbyte,
an Internet strategy and consulting site
that was recently acquired by Quantrum International.
While others hit Wall Street
or Capitol Hill for fancy summer internships Newman
devoted his past two summers to
6、 working feverishly
to hit the Internet jackpot-
and he plans to spend this upcoming summer
launching his newest company Paradigm Blue,
a venture capital site dealing with student-driven projects.
During the school year Newman
has the typical college student’s challenge
of juggling school and
7、 play.
But in Newman’s case play is running his company,
meeting prospective clients
and driving to New York City several times a week.
How many hours a week during the school year
does Newman devote to his non-academic work?
Newman doesn’t keep count-
he’s too afraid of the figure that he’d
8、come up with.
During the summer months Newman did extensive traveling,
meeting with potential clients all over the country.
He has employed several college students in his company.
The summer has become a popular time
for students to get their feet wet in the business
and Newman has taken advantage of that.
For now, Newman is focused on launching Paradigm Blue.
His goal is for the site to raise $10 million by May 1st
at which time he and his partners
will close the fund and start their fun.
What comes next who knows?
But that’s what’s so fun about the new new thing.
高中英語 晨讀英語美文60篇 16 Ride the Internet Wave素材
