James Clark Biography

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NAME: James Clark
OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Computer Programmer
BIRTH DATE: March 23, 1944 (Age: 69)
EDUCATION: University of New Orleans, University of Utah, Stanford University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Plainview, Texas
AKA: Jim Clark
ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

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Technology entrepreneur James Clark started Silicon Graphics, launched Netscape with Marc Andreessen and created Healtheon, which merged with WebMD.

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WebMD

In July of 1999, Clark merged Healtheon with WebMD, another successful online health forum. That same year he published an autobiography, Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft, which offered a first-hand account of Netscape’s race to beat Microsoft for control of the Internet. The book also detailed how and why Clark instigated the ongoing governmental antitrust trial against Microsoft.