The introduction to Sonsini
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A Stanford GSB contemporary who knew Larry Sonsini, and had been one of the entrepreneurs Sonsini took on to mentor. He made the introduction that brought Jonathan Hare into that arrangement.
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S-094 gives the introduction its mechanics: Harvard grad, Stanford GSB a couple of years after Hare, a long Oracle stint running the data-warehousing division (and, in Hare's account, building PL/SQL); founder of Emergent in 1994 and Sonsini's anointed entrepreneur of that year — who understood the matchmaking exactly: Larry would value Hare's Microsoft bridge. The introduction that produced the record's defining legal relationship. The episode.
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