00. Prologue

ACT I — THE IMMIGRANT WITH NO PLAN 

01. June 13, 1984 — JFK

02. My Last Real Job

03. The Man Who Jump-Started Everything

04. $10,000 I Didn’t Have

05. You’ve Got Mail

06. A Million Dollars I Couldn’t Touch

07. A Bestseller and a World Tour

08. My First Date With Carmen 

09. Fast. Very Fast

10. Six Months, Two Magazines

11. Riding The Java Wave

12. The Man in the Kilt

13. From Allaire to Adobe Six More Titles 

14. Irrational Exuberance 

15. Roger and Jeremy 

16. The TMZ of Tech

17. Hiring and Firing a COO 

18. Faster Than Anyone Expected

19. Thanksgiving In Prison 

20. God Doesn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison 

21. The Merger That Never Happened 

ACT II — THE PEAK 

22. The $50 Million Call

23. Closing Day! Fifty Million Dollars

24. The $7 Million AIG Refused To Pay 

25. The Night I Booked The Temptations 

26. Coined ”Cloud Computing”

27. CNN Breaking News 

28. From PC EXPO to CloudEXPO

29. Chateau Late Rothschild 

30. Bill Coleman and the Chairman’s Wife

31. James Gosling and Rudy Giuliani 

32. Selling an Island to Jimmy Buffett

33. Dinner With a President 

ACT III — EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH IT

34. Ten Years, Five Wives 

35. I Asked My Divorce Judge Out 

36. Writing This Book in Nixon’s Library 

37. Wikileaks 

38. When the Cook Quit

ACT IV — REINVENTION

39. Castrated Bulls 

40. A Bakkal During COVID 

41. The Truth Behind My Dumb Luck 

42. High School Reunion 

43. Post-Production Notes 

Epilogue

Acknowledgments 

About the author 

Also by the Author 

Index