Mine's Bigger

<p>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.</p><p>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 <em>The Maltese Falcon</em>. 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 <em>Star Trek</em>. The riveting biography of a remarkable ship and the remarkable man who built it <em>Mine's Bigger</em> is an unforgettable profile of ambition hubris audacity and the imagination of a legendary entrepreneur. </p>