Boss, braggart, and the husband of Hare's mentor. This page is Hare's account of a thirty-year-old conflict, marked as such throughout, and Minor's own account is invited.
This is Jonathan Hare's account, with its provenance shown. The person or organization named has not yet claimed or corrected it.
Michael Minor was Blyth Software's chief executive, Jonathan Hare's boss, and the husband of Hare's mentor — which made what followed as personally costly as it was professionally necessary, and the page states both. Minor recruited Hare out of Stanford GSB with the public brag that he was the smartest graduate in forty years, capable of single-handedly replacing the five or so executives Minor had recently fired for challenging him or for what Minor deemed incompetence. On Minor's watch the stock rose ten-fold — a fact the page records plainly, alongside Hare's analysis of why: an unsustainable surge of upgrade and maintenance revenue from the loyal Mac installed base, produced by Hare's own decision to pull engineering off the 'PowerSoft killer' Minor was promoting to the press and onto the stable point release customers could actually run their businesses on, while Wall Street priced Blyth against PowerSoft comparables.
The record's account of the conflict is Hare's and David Baron's, and is marked as such: executives who spoke honestly to the board were fired; the recruiting pitch contained claims — a from-scratch Pascal-to-C++ rewrite that was in fact a converter run, class libraries flat as Kansas — that Baron confessed to Hare in his first week; and when it ended, Minor's parting shot was to accuse Hare of a messiah savior complex, which Hare heard as a subtle threat delivered in the only form available to a man who had lost the board. Two things belong on the other side of the ledger, and the page carries them: Minor made no forward-looking claims to Wall Street — his own account of the soaring stock, as Hare records it, was 'I have no idea why the stock is going up' — and Hare's summary of the resolution is that by his leaving quietly, everyone won and no one was defrauded. What would strengthen or defeat any of this: contemporaneous Blyth records, the Omnis 7 codebase, and above all Minor's own account, which this page formally invites.
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Omnis — the only client-server tool that worked across everything
Open →recruited, promoted, and was outmanoeuvred byConsilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
Open →the board's answer toCaltech physics PhD installed as EVP/COO by the board; the first executive Hare could talk to in first principles
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