The diligence layer had a small cast, and the record is assembling it name by name
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Rohit De Souza was another of the technical due-diligence people Ray Lane relied upon, known to Jonathan Hare from the Asera orbit — the same channel that produced Ajit Nazre and the convergence at Kleiner Perkins. The diligence layer of that era was a small cast moving between the same firms, and the record is assembling it deliberately, because who vetted what, for whom, is provenance for every deal story the corpus tells. His fuller role is the standing ask.
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Bunny Weiss and Vinod Khosla's company; backed by Ray Lane at Oracle, Cisco, Intel and SAP; the diligence channel into the Kleiner convergence
Open →ran diligence relied on byComplex-adaptive-systems enthusiast via the Aspen Institute; Oracle's technical champions connected the dots; the deal-clout Hare was looking for
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