As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all--from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France.
The riveting biography of a remarkable ship and the remarkable man who built it, Mine\'s Bigger is an unforgettable profile of ambition, hubris, audacity, and the imagination of a legendary entrepreneur..
This modern clipper ship is as long as a football field and forty-two feet wide, with three rotating masts, each twenty stories high, and a bridge straight out of Star Trek .
Kaplan takes us inside the mind of an American genius and behind the scenes of an extraordinary venture: the birth of Perkins\'s $130 million marvel The Maltese Falcon .
With keen storytelling and biting wit, bestselling author David A.
But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built.
As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all--from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France
