One of Hare's oldest friends and the second patron in this record — whose Capitol Hill house held a future Senator and a future Speaker
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A long-standing friend and, like Pam Alexander, someone who simply made his life available. Jonathan Hare could stay at any of Woodhill's houses around the country.
One of them was the house at 154 D Street in south-east Washington, roughly a block and a half from the Capitol Hill Club and beside the Cannon House Office Building, where he rented rooms to congressmen — Pat Toomey, the future two-term Senator from Pennsylvania, and Paul Ryan, the future Speaker of the House, among them. (An earlier edition of this page compressed them into 'two future senators'; corrected per S-096, with the individual pages having had it right all along.)
S-094 places him at the origin of the coup chapter: freshly ousted from his own company, he suggested his brother Louis as Evolve's operating partner — the suggestion that led through Bix and a walk-in closet to Il Fornaio. The brothers' taste for shock humor is preserved in the record where it belongs: verbatim, in the episode.
Per S-113: an investor across four of Hare's ventures — Series A of Evolve Software; possibly Consilient (“maybe a nominal amount, like $5k” — the hedge is the author's and is kept); the original Resilient, with Matthew Spolin; and Resilient Network Systems.
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Two patrons, independently, for years: Pam Alexander in Aspen, Tucson and Atlanta; Jim Woodhill's houses across the country. In both cases the arrangement was the same — get yourself there and everything else is covered.
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Where Hare's job was to evict the future Speaker of the House
Open →the other patronFriend and patron — who let a broke man live her life for a weekend at a time
Open →suggested his brotherThe synthetic-fuels Texan whose COO stint lasted from a Bix punchline to an Il Fornaio ultimatum
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