Bill Haseltine's introduction; the oncologist to Redstone, the moguls and Andy Grove; a major mentor — and the relay request on this page is live
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Jonathan Hare met David Agus through Bill Haseltine, in the era when Haseltine was connecting him to notable people wholesale — Michael Milken, Steve Case, and many others. Agus was then at Cedars-Sinai near UCLA, and his practice had become the quiet institution of two industries: prostate-cancer physician to Sumner Redstone and the Hollywood moguls, then to Andy Grove, and then — word getting around — to essentially anyone in tech or entertainment who got the diagnosis and wanted the consult.
The first meeting is a vignette below, and it never really ended: the conversation about how social networks could facilitate patient-centered care and wellness continued across a dozen in-person meetings over the years, four of them at USC in the period when Agus persuaded Larry Ellison to fund a human-longevity institute there. That institute evolved into the Ellison Institute of Technology, with its Oxford unit — the UK presence that involves Tony Blair. Agus became a major mentor: he connected Hare to Navigenics, the personal-genomics company funded by Sue Siegel at Mohr Davidow Ventures, and to many other top-tier venture funds, and he worked on a proteomics venture with Danny Hillis — whose page carries the loop that closes between the record's two Haseltine threads.
A relay request, live on this page at Hare's direction: David — give me a call. The pitch travels in one sentence: we can cut Oracle's cost of capital dramatically, and let Larry realize all his dreams much faster. Hare has met Ellison a number of times socially — the source record carries his own cheerful footnote about Ellison's former girlfriends, at his own expense as usual — and the pairing this page originally recorded stands: Soros's Oxford institute and Ellison's, opposite ends of the spectrum, one mission. Anyone who can reach Agus is asked to send him this page.
Per S-190: it was Agus who introduced Hare to Amy DuRoss at Navigenics, where Hare got to know her well — the friendship that now carries the record's Prop 71 and stem-cell thread.
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Hare was explaining the Resilient Trust Network when Agus took a call and stayed on it for fifteen minutes, Hare sitting there hearing one side of the conversation. When he hung up, Agus said: that was a young kid by the name of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook — he is really interested in doing something in healthcare. What followed was a conversation about social networks facilitating patient-centered care and wellness that, in Hare's phrase, never stopped. The record notes the scene's compression: the trust-network pitch, the social-network founder, and the healthcare question, all in one room in one hour — and every thread of it still running in the corpus twenty years later.
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Proposed by Mendonca for the Consilience Initiative in December 2006; known to Hare slightly from the Santa Fe Institute; Executive Director of INET Oxford since
Open →introduced byHuman Genome Sciences — and the introduction to Eric
Open →physician toThe class Hare got stuck in, which changed everything
Open →the proteomics venture withConnection Machine designer, Long Now co-founder, Agus's proteomics partner — three of this record's threads in one person
Open →persuaded to fund the instituteMet socially a number of times; the Oracle founder behind the USC longevity institute and the Ellison Institute of Technology
Open →major mentor toConsilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
Open →the field he started1980 Nobel in Chemistry for recombinant DNA; organizer of Asilomar 1975; first director of Stanford's Beckman Center; the biochemist whose lunch turned Jobs toward NeXT — and a narrator of the Jobs documentary
Open →introduced her to HareCo-founder and executive director of Proposition 71, California's $3B stem-cell initiative; CIRM chief of staff; Navigenics CBO; Vineti co-founder and CEO — and a friend of Hare's
Open →co-founder — now a pageThe personal-genomics company of David Agus and Dietrich Stephan; sold to Life Technologies in 2012; the room where two of the record's friendships were made
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