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Megayachting: More Civilized and Fashionable Than Just Plain Old Yachting

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Tomorrow afternoon, Tom Perkins, the famed venture capitalist whose firm is responsible for funding the likes of Amazon.com, America Online, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Google, Intuit, Lotus, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems, plans to sail his megayacht, The Maltese Falcon, into San Francisco Bay for the first time. Why is ...