James L. Barksdale

You love Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

And what it does is it says to people, including Jim Barksdale, who you know, he's one of our clients, we will write your memoirs.

We will write your biography.

And so some of my Tulane students do the reporting and the interviewing.

So I think that's becoming at least temporarily underappreciated these days.

You've written and spoken about leadership quite a bit and alluded to some learnings from Jim Barksdale, right? I think Netscape, one of the most amazing things was we had one of the most amazing leaders Silicon Valley has ever seen, I think, from an inspiring people perspective.

toward a mission.

And so what did you learn from Jim? What stands out?

Yeah.

And then Jim Barksdale joined not too long after, or he was there?

Yeah, Jim was hired as the CEO probably like a year into it.

I don't really recall exactly.

thing.

Yeah.

So I mean, you've had the opportunity to work in companies led by Jim Clark, Jim Barksdale, Sundar, Tim Cook, Mike McHugh.

A surprising number of them had been coached by