Overview

As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all-from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built. With keen storytelling and biting wit, bestselling author David A. Kaplan takes us inside the mind of an American genius and behind the scenes of an extraordinary venture: the birth of Perkins's $130 million marvel The Maltese Falcon. This modern clipper ship is as long as a football field and forty-two feet wide, with three rotating masts, each twenty stories high, and a bridge straight out of Star Trek. The riveting biography of a remarkable ship and the remarkable man who built it, Mine's Bigger is an unforgettable profile of ambition, hubris, audacity, and the imagination of a legendary entrepreneur.

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Engaging and revealing...brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan.... ----Daniel Okrent, Fortune

Inspired. --Denver Rocky Mountain News An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins...created 'the perfect yacht'...the Maltese Falcon. --American Heritage Perkins' two worlds--high-stakes, big-ego, cutting-edge sailing technology, and high-stakes, big-ego corporate politics--are inextricably linked in MINE'S BIGGER. --New York Post The man, his ego and his boat are examined with insight and precision. --Forbes I opened Mr. Kaplan's book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed. --Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal Engaging and revealing...brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan.... ----Daniel Okrent, Fortune ...definitely worth the read. --USA Today

. ..definitely worth the read. -- USA Today Engaging and revealing.brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan.... -- --Daniel Okrent, Fortune Inspired. -- Denver Rocky Mountain News Inspired. --Denver Rocky Mountain News An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins...created 'the perfect yacht'...the Maltese Falcon. --American Heritage Perkins' two worlds--high-stakes, big-ego, cutting-edge sailing technology, and high-stakes, big-ego corporate politics--are inextricably linked in MINE'S BIGGER. --New York Post . ..definitely worth the read. --USA Today Engaging and revealing...brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan.... ----Daniel Okrent, Fortune The man, his ego and his boat are examined with insight and precision. --Forbes I opened Mr. Kaplan's book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed. --Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins...created the perfect yacht ...the Maltese Falcon. --American Heritage I opened Mr. Kaplan s book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed. --Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal Perkins two worlds--high-stakes, big-ego, cutting-edge sailing technology, and high-stakes, big-ego corporate politics--are inextricably linked in MINE S BIGGER. --New York Post The man, his ego and his boat are examined with insight and precision. --Forbes Engaging and revealing brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan.... ----Daniel Okrent, Fortune ...definitely worth the read. --USA Today Inspired. --Denver Rocky Mountain News .. .definitely worth the read. --USA Today

""The man, his ego and his boat are examined with insight and precision."" - Forbes ""An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins, the man most responsible for bankrolling Silicon Valley, created 'the perfect yacht'-the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, and most self indulgent sailboat ever: the Maltese Falcon."" - American Heritage ""An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins...created 'the perfect yacht'...the Maltese Falcon."" - American Heritage ""Engaging and revealing... If it's your idea of fun is to admire the fabulously wealthy, brilliant, and charismatic person you will never be, you'll want to read Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built. But if holding up the ludicrously self-involved for public examination makes you whimper with delight, you'll like it just as much... Billed as the tale of his quest to build a mega-yacht to outdo all other mega-yachts, Mine's Bigger is really a biography of this fascinating, important, and frequently repellent man, brought so vividly to life by the adept Kaplan that you almost feel you're in the room with him."" - --Daniel Okrent, Fortune ""Engaging and revealing...brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan...."" - --Daniel Okrent, Fortune ""Having started sailboat racing myself in the summer of 1946, I understand the fervor that goes into it, so I opened Mr. Kaplan's book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed. ...Tom Perkins might tell you that investing money in start-up companies is fun and--sometimes--profitable. But sailing has been what has truly obsessed him, and he seems to have succeeded in building the boat of his--and plenty of other sailors'--dreams."" - Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal ""I opened Mr. Kaplan's book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed."" - Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal ""...definitely worth the read."" - USA Today ""Perkins' two worlds--high-stakes, big-ego, cutting-edge sailing technology, and high-stakes, big-ego corporate politics--are inextricably linked in MINE'S BIGGER."" - New York Post ""Inspired."" - Denver Rocky Mountain News

Engaging and revealing.brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan.... -- --Daniel Okrent, Fortune

Author Information

David A. Kaplan is a senior editor at Newsweek, responsible for the magazine's Enterprise section. He also is the managing editor of the annual Newsweek-Kaplan College Guide. He previously was a writer for the magazine, with 15 cover stories on topics ranging from the Supreme Court to baseball to moviemaking to national politics.

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