James Clark
James H. Clark transformed companies into billion-dollar forays— Netscape, WebMD (formerly Healtheon), Hyperion, and Silicon Graphics. Jim Clark, along with Marc Andreessen, introduced the internet browser Netscape in 1994. Until 1998, Netscape took up 80% of the market.
Once a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, James Clark first delved into the technology business when he and some Stanford pupils organized Silicon Graphics, Inc. James Clark’s Silicon Graphics Company was the go-to company in Hollywood for special effects and three-dimensional computer imagery.
Many of Jim Clark’s philanthropic gifts were contributed to Stanford University where he was an electrical engineering professor:
- James Clark was indebted to Stanford when he pledged $150 million to the university. Most of the money was used to erect the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Sciences for interdisciplinary biomedical research, including stem cell research. Some of the money also went to procure new educational materials, provide positions for faculty who will be a part of the research effort, and sponsor scholars among graduate students.
- Aside from Stanford, James Clark also contributed $30-million to Tulane University in New Orleans, where James Clark took classes in high school.
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