Soon he joined Netscape as one of the first employees, ending up a millionaire and written up in countless magazine articles [and the star of the book Speeding the Net] because of his attention-getting flair for the dramatic, such as surrounding his Netscape cube with camouflage netting and throwing huge parties marking the anniversaries of the creation of the free Mozilla browser.
Not long after this, though, he very publicly quit the venture and went off to create his own high-tech San Francisco nightclub -- all the while chronicling everything for his adoring fans [those self-same nerdy computer hackers that he likes to have so much contempt for] on his website.