The organizations the life ran through. Each institution hub aggregates its people, episodes and sources — and each is a community the cascade is aimed at.
This topic carries part of the argument of the Consilient Manifesto — the universal call to action. ← Back to the call
Two men in this record each designed something clever enough to defeat them. One structured a transaction so precisely hedged that his own bonus…
Open →Realizing the Grand VisionThe company was ended by two mechanisms. He designed one and agreed to the other, both from a position of strength, both against people he trusted.…
Open →Realizing the Grand VisionIn late Fall 2000, Consilient held a committed $15 million preferred financing at a $135 million pre-money valuation — $150 million post, the…
Open →CTO at Evolve, founder of InfoCanvas — which became Consilient
Open →OrganizationThree rounds, a silver bullet, and the end of Hare's tenure
Open →ConceptA clause he signed, and the reason there was nothing he could do
Open →PersonTwenty-nine, and in over his head in the worst spring in a generation
Open →OrganizationA $10m lead investment in crowdsourced solutions — in 2001
Open →PersonOak Hill operating partner — who took the term sheet back to the investor
Open →ConceptBass's model fixes the Spence problem. Then it creates a second one.
Open →OrganizationExpert testimony, and where arguments learn to survive attack
Open →PersonOne young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.
Open →PersonThe closest of Hare's Nobel-laureate mentorships — thirteen years, from a contradicted lecture to an investment in Consilient
Open →Every episode above distills from these. Where a page and its source differ, the source governs.
“[Raw voice dictation, transcribed as spoken, retained unedited for provenance. Speech disfluencies, false starts and…”
Open →In his own words · S-023 · 2026-08-13“They were separate rounds. I passed on the $15m SG round at $150m valuation. Oak Hill offered $5m convertible note at a…”
Open →In his own words · S-024 · 2026-08-13“My $3m round was a bridge. Ray Conley's mission was to raise a VC round at any price — Oak Hill didn't care about…”
Open →In his own words · S-069 · 2026-08-17“Can you add the context of how I had secured a committed term sheet offer of a $15m Preferred Equity Financing at a…”
Open →In his own words · S-063 · 2026-08-17“Sandra Smith was a VP at Consilient and worked very closely with me on the BP Account. She was with me in London in…”
Open →In his own words · S-073 · 2026-08-18“My memory is that the SG termsheet was $15m at a $135m pre-money valuation and (therefore) a $150m post-money…”
Open →The same nodes exist simultaneously in other projections of the one graph. Touching this hub surfaces its correlated partners — follow any of them and the graph re-collapses around it.
Shared with 3 of this hub's episodes.
Open →The ParadigmShared with 3 of this hub's episodes.
Open →ChapterShared with 3 of this hub's episodes.
Open →The CircleShared with 2 of this hub's episodes.
Open →The UniversalsShared with 2 of this hub's episodes.
Open →The CascadesShared with 2 of this hub's episodes.
Open →Every hub is deliberately incomplete. Correct anything wrong, add what only you know, or claim your entry — recorded, timestamped, and attributed to you.