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A one-hour documentary from the Silicon Valley Historical Association, directed by Sally McBurney and produced by the Association's president John McLaughlin, released on 10 January 2013 and built around the Association's unscripted 1994 interview of Jobs at NeXT — the 'everything I've done will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty' interview — with commentary recorded between 1992 and 2012. Jonathan Hare remembered it as a 'Santa Clara Valley historical society' film from 2011 or 2012, released around Jobs's death (S-182); the record keeps his words and supplies the identification. His account is that he had personally met almost every one of its narrators, with maybe a couple of exceptions, and that most of those connections came through Laurene Powell Jobs.

The credited participants, from the film's own credits (web grade), against Hare's list of 31 August 2026 (S-183):

John Warnock — Adobe co-founder — met, on the ledger
Charles Geschke — Adobe co-founder — not met, by his list
Larry Ellison — Oracle founder — met, on the ledger
Kevin Surace — Serious Energy founder — met, on the ledger
Nolan Bushnell — Atari founder — not met, by his list
Steve Wozniak — Apple co-founder — met, on the ledger
Mike Markkula — Apple co-founder — not met, by his list
Scott McNealy — Sun co-founder — met, on the ledger
Vinod Khosla — Sun co-founder — met, on the ledger
Paul Berg — Nobel laureate, Stanford — not met, by his list
Jim Clark — Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon founder — met, on the ledger
Scott Cook — Intuit founder — met, on the ledger
Jonathan Schwartz — Lighthouse Design founder; Sun's former CEO — met, on the ledger
Carol Dweck — Stanford professor, author of Mindset — met, on the ledger
Regis McKenna — Apple's early marketing and PR — met, on the ledger
Fred Hoar — Apple's early PR — not met, by his list
Federico Faggin — silicon gate and the first microprocessor — not met, by his list
Mike Hackworth — Cirrus Logic founder — not met, by his list
Lisa Jardine — Renaissance historian — not met, by his list
Eva Hanebutt-Benz — Gutenberg Museum director — not met, by his list
Mike Malone — author, The Big Score — not met, by his list
John McLaughlin — SVHA president; the film's producer — met, on the ledger

Twelve met, ten not. His first account (S-182) was 'almost every single person… maybe a couple of exceptions'; asked for the list he gave twelve of twenty-two (S-183); asked about the gap he explained it (S-184): he had been counting the prominent people, not the participants 'who could fill in the blanks in his story but weren't well known,' and the only big names he had not met were Bushnell and Markkula — 'although I probably actually met them at conferences but don't remember it thirty years later.' The record keeps all three statements. Asked about Geschke, he answered (S-185): not met — he knew many at Adobe and many who knew both founders, but Warnock and Geschke 'weren't the types to hang out with college students or wet behind the ear Stanford MBAs.' Paul Berg he did not know personally, but knows many who did (S-189), and Berg has a page. Warnock: met at an event or through someone, no significant time (S-188). The list is closed. What remains invited, for each of the twelve, is where and through whom.

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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.

For each of the twelve: where Hare met them, and through whom

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Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur — the documentary whose narrators Hare says he had almost all met

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Steve Jobs: the same first job, the same mentor's shadow, the same commune state — and a documentary whose narrators I mostly knew

Larry Ellison funded the institute — and the message on the Agus page is addressed to his cost of capital

Scott McNealy interrupted: 'I need to say hello to my best customer'

Vinod Khosla: founding chairman of Asera, co-investor with Bunny, and one of the three who lured Ray Lane to Kleiner

Laurene Powell Jobs: two red cars on the Oval, the Culture Club, the roach coach — and everything she is a link away from

John Warnock made the page programmable — PostScript, Adobe, and the PDF

Kevin Surace built the first big AI virtual assistant — Portico — a generation before Siri

Steve Wozniak: the third teenager on an HP line in this record

Jim Clark founded three billion-dollar companies — the third attacked the same plumbing Resilient did

Scott Cook built Intuit on watching people — and sat on the board of the market for trust

Jonathan Schwartz wrote NeXT software before he ran Sun

Carol Dweck named the growth mindset — the psychology under this record's Eileen Gu passage

Regis McKenna taught Silicon Valley to talk — Apple's story was his craft

John McLaughlin keeps the Valley's memory — and made the film this record keeps checking

Paul Berg, who spliced the first DNA at Stanford, paused the field to think about it, and gave Steve Jobs a landmark lunch — a man I never met but know through many who did

Where this came from

Steve Jobs — the parallels, the Terman line, and the documentary's narrators: Hare's request and account, verbatim

The documentary's narrators Hare has met — his list, verbatim

'I was focused on the prominent people' — Hare's clarification on the documentary's narrators, verbatim

Adobe, Warnock and Geschke — Hare's answer on the Adobe founders, verbatim

The Sustainability Fellows, the Nobel summit's rooms, Peter Knez, Paula Ehrlich, Karla Brollier — and Warnock, the LaserWriter and NeXT: Hare's account, verbatim

Paul Berg — 'I don't know him personally, but I know many who do': the ruling to add him, verbatim

'Activate them via the network connections' — the bios ruling, verbatim

What is missing, and how to fix it

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