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Doug Ayer of ICP co-invested in Actional alongside Scott Sandell at NEA — the company where James Phillips ran products and Jonathan Hare's strategy engagement ran. That is the whole of the record on him, and the page does not pad it.
S-094 delivers the chapter behind the existing page: running International Capital Partners, the $300 million Stamford fund, he carved $1 million from Draper's $3 million seed — East Coast deep pockets buying West Coast credibility alongside Sonsini and Draper, in Hare's read — then pushed the operating-partner mandate that became the Woodhill coup, and delivered the Il Fornaio ultimatum himself: control for Louis, or the money walks. The money walked. The episode preserves the nine-word reply.
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Backed by Scott Sandell at NEA and Doug Ayer at ICP; James Phillips ran products; Hare ran a strategy and project-management engagement; Progress Software eventually acquired it
Open →carved into the round ofThe venture pioneer who would have led Evolve's seed; the record holds him at both dinners
Open →the mandate forThe synthetic-fuels Texan whose COO stint lasted from a Bix punchline to an Il Fornaio ultimatum
Open →delivered the ultimatum atThe Cowper Street epicenter of tech power-dining, where Doug Ayer's ultimatum met 'I decline your offer'
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