What he actually wanted was to never be satisfied. I was fascinated by his anger, given his wealth and success. He thought he believed that the past didn t matter. In fact, the past was the sole motivation. It s the first time I had heard of anyone creating companies as an act of revenge.
People write books as acts of revenge.
He was temperamentally more like an artist than a business person. All the engineers who worked for him said, Only Jim Clark would feel he s screwed in this situation. But you have to see it through his eyes. He actually sees the future, he ends up being right where things are going. To be right and be ignored, you would actually feel aggrieved if you sensed what was coming not just like a hunch but feeling it like a fact.