Remembering Netscape…and SGI

July 17, 2005 | Matt Marshall

Updated

Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky has a good retrospective piece in Fortune on Netscape. Aug. 9 is the tenth anniversary of its IPO. Lashinksy interviews many of the main players, letting people like Jim Clark, Marc Andreessen and John Doerr recount the glory days in their own words.

It is a solid piece, even if it has created a little heat from some parts.

The piece rightly recalls here that Jim Clark’s other company, SGI, was a billion-dollar plus company when he moved to found Netscape. Meanwhile, here’s the latest data on SGI, which shows significant decline.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.