Stanford GSB class of 1991; Terravera's co-founder with Laurene Powell Jobs; the man Hare sent Julia Seidelin to for a raw-foods restaurant
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John (JJ) Mullane, Stanford GSB class of 1991 — Laurene Powell's classmate, and a good friend of Jonathan Hare's. After graduation, around the time she married Steve Jobs, he and she co-founded what Hare calls a gourmet organic roach coach (S-181): mobile food vans to the business parks of Silicon Valley serving gourmet organic dishes instead of the usual fast food. The public record, at web grade, names it Terravera, founded in 1992, selling basmati platters and black-bean burritos to office-park workers — the New York Times and Chicago Tribune covered it at the time. Years later, when Hare's girlfriend Julia Seidelin wanted to found a raw-foods restaurant, JJ was the man Hare introduced her to.
Public record since, at web grade: Bowdoin, then the GSB; founder and chief executive of Illumen; now chief operating officer at Prestige Laboratories in the Bay Area. His own account of the roach coach — the vans, the menus, the parks — would be a better page than this one, and is invited.
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'They had mobile food vans that went to all the business parks in Silicon Valley, but rather than sell the usual fast foods, they had gourmet organic dishes.' The press of the day agrees, down to the basmati.
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A year ahead at Stanford GSB; a symphony series; a borrowed Ferrari that was Steve Jobs's. Now: Emerson Collective, The Atlantic, and a network the record wants to reach
Open →class of 19911990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up
Open →introduced to him by HareHare's girlfriend, 2003 to 2006 or so — introduced to JJ Mullane for the restaurant she wanted to found
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