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Dr. James Jim Clark is a renowned Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and visionary. Clark’s personal interest in digital photography and Shutterfly’s unique business model attracted him to the company soon after it was founded. In 1999, Clark became the Company’s original investor and Chairman of the Shutterfly Board.
Clark began his career in 1982 when he founded Silicon Graphics, which soon became the world leader in the production of movie special effects and 3-D imaging. In the early 1990s, Clark co-founded Netscape and helped create the Web as we know it today. After that, Clark created Healtheon to help streamline the insurance and paperwork associated with the healthcare industry, and also to make healthcare more readily available to a greater number of people. Shortly thereafter, Clark merged Healtheon with WebMD to form the current WebMD Corporation.
In 1999, Clark launched myCFO, a company to help individuals manage their assets. Clark was also chairman and financial backer of Neoteris, a network security startup company founded in 2000, which was acquired by Net Screen in 2003 and subsequently by Juniper Networks.
Clark served as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then as an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. Clark earned an MS in physics from University of New Orleans, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah.
Clark was the main subject of the 1999 bestseller The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by US author Michael Lewis. | 