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...question of national identity is still complicated because Feininger's German sojourn lasted a half century and his work appears distinctly German. His most influential pieces used the color pallette of postwar German Expressionism and his rigid, distorted figures anticipated Franz Marc, Ernst Nolde--and even Italian Futurism in some respects...
Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs knew how Marc Andreessen feels today. Apple Computer, which he founded with Steve Wozniak, went public in 1980 when Jobs was 25. But in 1985 he was pushed out of the company (today he doesn't even use Apple products, although a broken Macintosh he calls a "sculpture" sits in a closet), and his fortunes seemed to dim. Later that year, he started NeXT, but its computers never caught on the way the Macs...
...Marc Andreessen might be surprised to hear it, but Doug Colbeth thinks the people over at Netscape are "very much Hollywood personalities." Colbeth is the president and ceo of Spyglass Inc., which directly competes with Netscape. Spyglass is not based in lush, sun-tinged California, but rather in Naperville, Illinois. Last June, when the company went public, management celebrated by taking the 54 employees to a minor-league baseball game (tickets: $2 apiece). "We're blue-collar high tech," Colbeth says...
Conservatives and liberals all seem to regard the high-tech entrepreneur as the ideal economic agent. They do so with good reason, for if capitalism is "creative destruction," in Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, then people like Marc Andreessen, Steve Jobs, Jeff Braun, Bill Schrader and Doug Colbeth are responsible for the creating part. But is there much that conservative or liberal policies can really do to nurture such enterprise? Would Marc Andreessen work harder under a flat tax? The creating part of capitalism is the part that economic laws do not explain. Like a code writer and his code...
...Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul, David S. Jackson/Mountain View, Stacy Perman/New York and Adam Zagorin/Washington