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Mentors

Scholes, Wolfson, Spence, Sonsini, Hellman, Dreyfus, Glassey, Grove, Wilson — the reputations spent on him.

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Lived, then learned

The story of Mentors

Foundations of Networks

A clerical error put me in a room with Myron Scholes and Gary Becker…

The single most consequential thing in this record happened because a résumé was sorted into the wrong stack. Everything downstream — the adversarial…

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Foundations of Networks · Realizing the Grand Vision

Myron Scholes, Nobel laureate, was my mentor for thirteen years…

Two men in this record each designed something clever enough to defeat them. One structured a transaction so precisely hedged that his own bonus…

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Realizing the Grand Vision

How a commune kid reached Michael Spence, Larry Sonsini and Kleiner…

Access in Silicon Valley is usually described as networking. What actually happened here was narrower and more interesting: a small number of people…

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Genesis of the Grand Vision

The immaculate revolution: a secret coup for a Clinton backer, run by…

A 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…

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Foundations of Networks

Feature vectors before the field: the geometry AI rediscovered forty…

The lesson learned doing matrix transformations in APL — that a property which changes under a change of coordinates was never a property of the…

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Genesis of the Grand Vision

All art, no science: Larry Sonsini's blueprint, the Ceridian bluff…

Larry Sonsini took Hare as his entrepreneur of the year — for the Berkeley loyalty and the Microsoft bridge — and handed him venture capital's true…

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The room

Who carries Mentors

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Michael Spence

Vice Chairman of Consilient, and the introduction into Cisco

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Stuart Dreyfus

Berkeley advisor — and the man who handed him Hinton's paper

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C. Roger Glassey

The other advisor, and the NeXT machine

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Andy Grove

The class Hare got stuck in, which changed everything

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Robert Burgelman

Co-taught the course, and Hare loved him

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David Yoffie

Visiting from Harvard, and became a mentor

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Adam Bosworth

Mentor at Microsoft — and the man who said it could not be done

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E. O. Wilson

The commission, the foundation, and the name

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Doug Merritt

Met at the PC Forum lunch table

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Garth Saloner

Co-taught the Grove class, then joined Blyth's board

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Val Vaden

Harvard then Stanford, Tesseract, Benchmark — and a game of chicken with a city bus

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Larry Sonsini

One young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.

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Jim Malernee

Cofounder of Cornerstone Research, and an old friend

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Jeanne Bayless

Blyth Software — and a connection between two parts of the record

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Myron Scholes

The closest of Hare's Nobel-laureate mentorships — thirteen years, from a contradicted lecture to an investment in Consilient

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Martin Hellman

Co-inventor of public-key cryptography; cryptography mentor and early investor. The record here is thin and says so.

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Ray Lane

Complex-adaptive-systems enthusiast via the Aspen Institute; Oracle's technical champions connected the dots; the deal-clout Hare…

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Walt Smiley

Arkansas investor, principal Clinton backer, and the kindly southern voice running the operation — deniable by design

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In his own words

The verbatim layer beneath Mentors

Every episode above distills from these. Where a page and its source differ, the source governs.

In his own words · S-029 · 2026-08-13

The dictation sessions — Berkeley through Consilient

“[Raw voice dictation, transcribed as spoken, retained unedited for provenance. Speech disfluencies, false starts and…”

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In his own words · S-070 · 2026-08-17

The Blyth dictation — the immaculate revolution, and the threads around it

“I submitted the last prematurely. For Ray Lane, I heard he was a fan of complex adaptive systems theory, having learned…”

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In his own words · S-071 · 2026-08-17

Jeanne confirmed, Jon Bayless, and the Nettles vindication at CIENA

“It's Jeanne Bayless. Biographical info below. Note that John Bayless's involvement with CIENA, where Patrick Nettles…”

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In his own words · S-155 · 2026-08-31

Vignette K: The Spring of 1992, IP Routing, and the Scott McNealy Lesson

“[RAW USER SOURCE: Direct Narrative] So when I met with Dave Marquardt, it was in the spring of 1992, whenever we were…”

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In his own words · S-081 · 2026-08-19

The feature-vectors prompt: APL at Berkeley, Hinton's paper, and the ask for…

“Can you review the first attachment, which is the responses from a Google AI / gemini prompts about the relationship of…”

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In his own words · S-082 · 2026-08-19

The Gemini transcript: feature vectors, Riemannian manifolds, twistors…

“[VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT — three prompts and three responses, Google Gemini, 19 August 2026. Hare's prompts verbatim: (1)…”

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In his own words · S-094 · 2026-08-20

The vignette package: Heidelberg, The Cats, Synanon, Sonsini, and the Il…

“[Document 1, verbatim — the vignettes as supplied, preserved in the archive at full length; published as the six…”

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Entangled

Where Mentors touches the other projections

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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