James Barksdale, who had been chief operating officer at Federal Express, became president of McCaw Cellular in 1991.

FORBES: "We're On A Collision Course"

But it might merely give James Barksdale, at Netscape, a better chance of displacing Bill Gates as the man we love to hate.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear fallout

The vehicle for Chambers' space race is TechNet, a lobbying outfit he founded in 1997 with venture capitalist John Doerr and then-chief executive of Netscape, James Barksdale.

FORBES: Boondoggle