Ron Ellis, met at Tesseract, would have been an Evolve founder — the handcuffs were golden and fitted

Who this is

Ron Ellis and Jonathan Hare met at Tesseract — Ellis VP of Sales, Hare Director of Product Management — and the working relationship became one of Hare's closest friendships and mentorships. Ellis joined Evolve Software very early and would have been a founder outright, but seniority cuts both ways: after Ceridian bought Tesseract, his golden handcuffs were heavier than Hare's and his non-compete and non-solicitation agreements more robust, so the title lagged the fact.

The friendship ran through Bix's — the best restaurant in San Francisco at the time and Hare's all-time favorite, which he had been going to since it opened, first taken by his cousin Dodi during the Berkeley years to be taught, in a sentence the dictation abandons mid-thought, 'the ways of' — the record preserves the cut and files the ask. It was Ellis who introduced Hare to Warren 'Bunny' Weiss, which is how the Asera thread begins.

Connected from here

There is no single root. This is one view of the graph, from this node — what you see depends on where you enter and what you are looking for.

Where this came from

Everything above is a distillation. The primary source is published in full, so that any claim on this page can be walked back to what was actually said — and where the two differ, the source governs.

What is missing, and how to fix it

This entry is deliberately incomplete. The gaps below are the things only certain people can settle — and settling one is a contribution like any other: recorded, timestamped and attributed to whoever made it.

• The rest of the Dodi sentence — the ways of what
• His account of the Tesseract and Evolve years