PC Forum's convenor; a longtime champion and investor across Hare's companies; the corridor personified
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Esther Dyson convened PC Forum — the exclusive executive conference that functions in this record as a corridor: Doug Merritt was met there, the FireDrop founders were met there, Tim O'Reilly was known mostly through her, and the circuit she anchored (with All Things Digital and Agenda alongside) is where the era's consequential relationships formed. She has been a longtime champion of Jonathan Hare's work and an investor across multiple of his companies — a relationship spanning decades that this scaffolding page badly under-represents, and says so.
The corridor claim now has its documented proof (S-083): around 2006 Dyson convened a personal-health-technology conference at the New School in New York — where Hare met, in his phrase, everyone who was anyone in personal health, Tim Andrews and Jamie Heywood among them, with Paul Meyer introduced through her besides — and shortly after, she reached out to David Lansky to have Hare appointed to the Markle Foundation's Personal Health Technology Council. That appointment produced Kat Mahan, the champion whose Leidos seat offered the path to McKinsey's Global Managing Partner two decades later. One conference, one phone call, and a twenty-year thread: that is what a corridor who chooses who walks through looks like in the data.
The record's structural observation: some people are nodes and some are corridors, and Dyson is the rarest kind — a corridor who chooses who walks through. The fuller account is owed at the weight the relationship carries, and the ask is filed first.
A naming consultation joins her page (S-100): the 2003 product concept Hare initially dubbed the Universal Process Server was rebranded the Resilient Thread Server after consultations with Esther — the corridor also worked as an editor.
S-101 adds a tip the record enjoys: back in 2000, Esther flagged Google's momentum to Hare on the strength of the awed reactions she received at airports carrying her workout clothes in a Google-branded gym bag — possibly the lowest-cost market signal in this record, and among the most accurate.
Two more entries in the connector ledger, both documented in dated correspondence: the January 2009 X-Prize for Health connection to Peter Diamandis's foundation — with her one-line discipline preserved verbatim: 'X-Prize wants the criteria for a prize, not the specs of a solution' (S-122) — and, as ICANN's first Chairman, the call that put Hare through to sitting CEO Rod Beckstrom when hare.com was sold out from under him (S-121).
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The publisher of the open-source era; a friend of the circuit, with a geographic footnote the record enjoys
Open →the circuit she convened, where the friendship ranThe conference circuit's closest friendship; close to John Battelle; scaffolding page awaiting Hare's fuller account
Open →longtime champion and investor ofConsilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
Open →had Hare appointed toOrganized by Carol Diamond, David Lansky and Zoe Baird; Hare appointed at Esther Dyson's instigation; Mahan, Sachs, Berry and Karkanias met there
Open →introducedThe mobile-health serial builder whose later work — SMART Health Cards adjacent — runs closest to this architecture's lane
Open →the conference where Hare metMet at Esther's conference; the patient-data pioneer whose work is this record's subject matter from the patient side
Open →the field she invested in1980 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
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