Scholes, Wolfson, Spence, Sonsini, Hellman, Dreyfus, Glassey, Grove, Wilson — the reputations spent on him.
This topic carries part of the argument of the Consilient Manifesto — the universal call to action. ← Back to the call
The single most consequential thing in this record happened because a résumé was sorted into the wrong stack. Everything downstream — the adversarial…
Open →Foundations of Networks · Realizing the Grand VisionTwo men in this record each designed something clever enough to defeat them. One structured a transaction so precisely hedged that his own bonus…
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 →Genesis of the Grand VisionA barely-public company's stock rose ten-fold on revenue produced by the one decision its CEO opposed, while the board ignored a year of fired…
Open →Foundations of NetworksThe lesson learned doing matrix transformations in APL — that a property which changes under a change of coordinates was never a property of the…
Open →Genesis of the Grand VisionLarry Sonsini took Hare as his entrepreneur of the year — for the Berkeley loyalty and the Microsoft bridge — and handed him venture capital's true…
Open →Vice Chairman of Consilient, and the introduction into Cisco
Open →PersonBerkeley advisor — and the man who handed him Hinton's paper
Open →PersonThe other advisor, and the NeXT machine
Open →PersonThe class Hare got stuck in, which changed everything
Open →PersonCo-taught the course, and Hare loved him
Open →PersonVisiting from Harvard, and became a mentor
Open →PersonMentor at Microsoft — and the man who said it could not be done
Open →PersonThe commission, the foundation, and the name
Open →PersonMet at the PC Forum lunch table
Open →PersonCo-taught the Grove class, then joined Blyth's board
Open →PersonHarvard then Stanford, Tesseract, Benchmark — and a game of chicken with a city bus
Open →PersonOne young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.
Open →PersonCofounder of Cornerstone Research, and an old friend
Open →PersonBlyth Software — and a connection between two parts of the record
Open →PersonThe closest of Hare's Nobel-laureate mentorships — thirteen years, from a contradicted lecture to an investment in Consilient
Open →PersonCo-inventor of public-key cryptography; cryptography mentor and early investor. The record here is thin and says so.
Open →PersonComplex-adaptive-systems enthusiast via the Aspen Institute; Oracle's technical champions connected the dots; the deal-clout Hare…
Open →PersonArkansas investor, principal Clinton backer, and the kindly southern voice running the operation — deniable by design
Open →Every episode above distills from these. Where a page and its source differ, the source governs.
“[Raw voice dictation, transcribed as spoken, retained unedited for provenance. Speech disfluencies, false starts and…”
Open →In his own words · S-070 · 2026-08-17“I submitted the last prematurely. For Ray Lane, I heard he was a fan of complex adaptive systems theory, having learned…”
Open →In his own words · S-071 · 2026-08-17“It's Jeanne Bayless. Biographical info below. Note that John Bayless's involvement with CIENA, where Patrick Nettles…”
Open →In his own words · S-155 · 2026-08-31“[RAW USER SOURCE: Direct Narrative] So when I met with Dave Marquardt, it was in the spring of 1992, whenever we were…”
Open →In his own words · S-081 · 2026-08-19“Can you review the first attachment, which is the responses from a Google AI / gemini prompts about the relationship of…”
Open →In his own words · S-082 · 2026-08-19“[VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT — three prompts and three responses, Google Gemini, 19 August 2026. Hare's prompts verbatim: (1)…”
Open →In his own words · S-094 · 2026-08-20“[Document 1, verbatim — the vignettes as supplied, preserved in the archive at full length; published as the six…”
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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