BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : SEPTEMBER 27, 1999 ISSUE
COVER STORY -- E.BIZ -- THE E.BIZ 25 James H. Clark JAMES H. CLARK MYCFO INC. Position: Founder and CEO Contribution: Arguably the father of the commercial Internet. Started Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon, and myCFO. Ambition: To keep launching companies that satisfy his intellectual curiosity or solve a problem he knows personally. When James Clark's new $30 million high-tech sailboat, Hyperion, was formally handed over to him at a Netherlands shipyard in January, the co-founder of Internet pioneer Netscape Communications Corp. (AOL) envisioned a leisurely life on what he called a ''luxury floating RV.'' Well, you can stuff that dream in a bottle and toss it out to sea. Instead, the serial entrepreneur is spending virtually 100% of his waking hours as CEO of yet another startup, myCFO Inc., a personal money-management service. There's just too much happening on the Internet for Clark to take a vacation. But he has only himself to blame. Five years ago, after leaving the first company he started, 3-D pioneer Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), he and programming whiz Marc Andreessen launched the Net revolution with their Netscape Navigator browser. It was that small, simple program that brought the power of the Net to regular folks. And Clark hasn't stopped there. He turned his attention to developing services that take advantage of the Net. First, he co-founded Healtheon Corp. (HLTH), a high-profile Web-based service for managing health care. And now he is focusing on personal finance, another fat target. ''I like to look at big markets and see if I can carve off a thick slice,'' says Clark, 55, who estimates his net worth at upwards of $1.8 billion. If the Net action doesn't let up, he may never get back to his luxury floating RV. By Steve Hamm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					RELATED ITEMS The e.biz 25: Masters of the Web Universe COVER IMAGE: The e.biz 25 Commentary: The Great Equalizer? Not by a Long Shot TABLE: Who's Lagging in the Net Age [empire builders] Jeffrey P. Bezos AMAZON.COM INC. Stephen M. Case AMERICA ONLINE INC. Timothy A. Koogle YAHOO! INC. [the innovators] Louis H. Borders WEBVAN GROUP INC. Jay S. Walker PRICELINE.COM Margaret C. Whitman EBAY INC. Glen Meakem FREE MARKETS ONLINE INC. James H. Clark MYCFO INC. Christos M. Cotsakos E*TRADE GROUP INC. [bankrollers] Masayoshi Son SOFTBANK CORP., JAPAN Robert C. Kagle BENCHMARK CAPITAL Lawton W. Fitt GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. L. John Doerr KLEINER PERKINS CAUFIELD & BYERS   Bernard Arnault LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON   [the visionaries] Mary G. Meeker MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER John Hagel III MCKINSEY & CO. William Joy SUN MICROSYSTEMS [the architects] Louis V. Gerstner Jr. IBM CORP. Pehong Chen BROADVISION INC. David C. Peterschmidt INKTOMI INC. Kevin J. O'Connor DOUBLECLICK Ellen M. Hancock EXODUS COMMUNICATIONS [the pace setters] David S. Pottruck CHARLES SCHWAB CORP. John T. Chambers CISCO SYSTEMS Michael S. Dell DELL COMPUTER INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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