Jim Clark

Jim Clark appears in Ron Conway on Founder Advocacy, Angel Investing, and the Internet’s First Wave as the founder figure who made the early browser opportunity investable. Ron Conway says Clark recognized that the internet needed a friendly access layer, found Mark Andreessen and other University of Illinois engineers working on browser technology, and brought them to Silicon Valley to create Netscape.

Conway also says he wanted to invest in Netscape, but Mike Homer told him Clark and John Doerr had already completed the round. In the source, Clark therefore sits at the center of Browser As Internet Unlock and Netscape Platform Ecosystem.

Connections

• Netscape, Mark Andreessen, Mike Homer, and John Doerr - browser-company context.
• Ron Conway and SV Angel - investor perspective.
• Browser As Internet Unlock and Netscape Platform Ecosystem - concepts grounded by the source.