The classmate who made him come to graduation — 'you might be the number one graduate'
This is Jonathan Hare's account, with its provenance shown. The person or organization named has not yet claimed or corrected it.
A Stanford GSB classmate and, in Jonathan Hare's words, his buddy. His place in the record is a single act in the spring of 1992: word came from the registrar's office that Hare was leading the class going into the final semester and might be its top graduate, and Karampelas told him not to leave early for Europe. Hare rescheduled his flight by two weeks to be there. He had by then spent the semester learning on Microsoft's Remote Access Server instead of attending class, took a few P+'s instead of A's, and did not become the Henry Ford II Scholar — the story on the Stanford GSB page.
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The registrar's office had not finished the last semester's grades, but Hare was in the lead. 'You need to come to graduation. You might be the number one graduate.' The flight to Europe moved two weeks; the prize, when the grades came in, had gone elsewhere. Hare's own accounting is that he traded it deliberately for what he was learning on the network.
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1990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up
Open →the prize he did not becomeStanford engineered collaboration. Harvard engineered competition. Both worked.
Open →buddyConsilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
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