Dyson, Hellman, Marquardt, Caufield, Sandell, the angels made whole after 9/11.
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The company was ended by two mechanisms. He designed one and agreed to the other, both from a position of strength, both against people he trusted.…
Open →Realizing the Grand VisionAccess in Silicon Valley is usually described as networking. What actually happened here was narrower and more interesting: a small number of people…
Open →Realizing the Grand VisionIn late Fall 2000, Consilient held a committed $15 million preferred financing at a $135 million pre-money valuation — $150 million post, the…
Open →Realizing the Grand VisionHare knew the whole Kleiner partnership from 1995 — Lacroute via Gassée over PDP-8s and Chateau Margaux — and ran on a legal speedball of Bordeaux…
Open →"Bill knew."
Open →PersonSanta Fe, New York, and the hundred-million remark
Open →PersonMicrosoft's board, the TOPS study, and the door into everything
Open →PersonLiked the pitches, and was overruled by his own partnership
Open →PersonTold Hare to camp somewhere else
Open →PersonThe Aspen lunch, and passions that ran to sustainability
Open →PersonTwenty-nine, and in over his head in the worst spring in a generation
Open →PersonHarvard then Stanford, Tesseract, Benchmark — and a game of chicken with a city bus
Open →Person“You're like Steve Jobs. You almost got me to invest, and I don't invest in anything.”
Open →PersonCo-founder of Index Ventures, and on the roadshow
Open →PersonOne of Hare's oldest friends and the second patron in this record — whose Capitol Hill house held a future Senator and a future…
Open →PersonCo-inventor of public-key cryptography; cryptography mentor and early investor. The record here is thin and says so.
Open →PersonThe legendary banker whose move from Morgan Stanley to CSFB decided the bake-off
Open →PersonPresent at two junctions of this record's financing story, from opposite sides of the table
Open →PersonMet through the Asera channel; the convergence at KPCB was coincidence with the structure of an inevitability
Open →PersonThe record holds one fact and says so
Open →PersonPC Forum's convenor; a longtime champion and investor across Hare's companies; the corridor personified
Open →PersonThe venture pioneer who would have led Evolve's seed; the record holds him at both dinners
Open →Every episode above distills from these. Where a page and its source differ, the source governs.
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Open →In his own words · S-023 · 2026-08-13“They were separate rounds. I passed on the $15m SG round at $150m valuation. Oak Hill offered $5m convertible note at a…”
Open →In his own words · S-024 · 2026-08-13“My $3m round was a bridge. Ray Conley's mission was to raise a VC round at any price — Oak Hill didn't care about…”
Open →In his own words · S-069 · 2026-08-17“Can you add the context of how I had secured a committed term sheet offer of a $15m Preferred Equity Financing at a…”
Open →In his own words · S-063 · 2026-08-17“Sandra Smith was a VP at Consilient and worked very closely with me on the BP Account. She was with me in London in…”
Open →In his own words · S-073 · 2026-08-18“My memory is that the SG termsheet was $15m at a $135m pre-money valuation and (therefore) a $150m post-money…”
Open →In his own words · S-101 · 2026-08-21“# THE CONSILIENT RECORD: PRIMARY NARRATIVES, EXECUTIVE GRAPH & ONTOLOGY **Classification:** Primary Source Biographical…”
Open →The same nodes exist simultaneously in other projections of the one graph. Touching this hub surfaces its correlated partners — follow any of them and the graph re-collapses around it.
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Open →InstitutionShared with 2 of this hub's episodes.
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