About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: James H. Clark, Jerry Yang, Ken McCarthy, Simon Mainwaring, Marc Andreessen, Damian Stephens, Brian Solis, Jaime Levy Russell, Gurbaksh Chahal, Martha Lane Fox, Jeff Black, Terry Semel, Pierre Omidyar, Kathy Sierra, Marc Fest, Patrick Grove, Pete Snyder, Jonathan Dube, Emerson Spartz, Ron Conway, Aaron Swartz, Brett Atwood, Tim O'Reilly, Michael Arrington, Josh Harris, Jon Mittelhauser, Lawrence Kestenbaum, Alexander Muse, Amol Sarva, Steve Jurvetson, David Filo, Dan Gillmor, Robert L. Norton, Dick Hardt, James Bromley, Divyank Turakhia, Melissa Marr, F. Mark Modzelewski, Marc Scarpa, Scott A. Jones, Susan Mernit, David O. Sacks, Stephan Ekbergh, Keith Teare, Aaron Patzer, DotComGuy, Richard Johnson, Bob Bernard, Pedro Sostre, Dennis Crowley, Dimitri Boylan, Sam Altman, Brent Hoberman, Philip J. Kaplan, Sean Howard, Eric Hahn, Gerry Kearby, Sahar Sarid, Kevin Spidel. Excerpt: Ken McCarthy (born September 20, 1959) is an American activist, educator, entrepreneur and Internet commercialization pioneer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, McCarthy's father Francis W. McCarthy (1922-2003) was pioneer in the practical applications of data processing technology for the insurance industry. McCarthy's maternal grandfather, Andrew Paretti of the Bronx, New York, was the preeminent granite masonry contractor in the New York City area from 1936 to 1955. His firm did the stone work for the chapel at West Point, Keating Hall at Fordham University, and the Peace Plaza of the United Nations, as well as numerous public works projects during the Robert Moses era. McCarthy graduated from Regis High School (New York City) in 1977 and Princeton University in 1981. At Princeton he hosted a jazz program for WPRB-FM. While at university and immediately afterwards, he produced numerous concerts including several for his college roommate, multi...
