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Met on the Markle council; the Health 2.0 Fall 2010 media on her own profile promotes Resilient's identity overlay; the Sternfels introduction was hers to make

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Martin Hellman, Turing laureate: he taught Hare the cryptography, then invested

Co-inventor of public-key cryptography; cryptography mentor and early investor. The record here is thin and says so.

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Michael Daniel's White House cybersecurity team took the briefings in 2013–14

Obama's Cybersecurity Coordinator; the referrals came from the NSA, DNI, CIA and DHS champions

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Michael Minor called me the smartest GSB graduate in forty years — then I led the coup against him

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.

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Michael Spence, Nobel laureate: why he took Vice Chairman and not the chair

Vice Chairman of Consilient, and the introduction into Cisco

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Microsoft, where I named the missing layer in 1991

Building 1, 1991 — the nucleus, and where the coordination problem was named

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Mohr Davidow Ventures, where I met Sue Siegel and refined Resilient's plan

The Sand Hill firm of Larry Mohr and Bill Davidow — Siegel's partnership, Schott's executive residency, Navigenics' backer

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My first real experiment was Einstein's, run on a PDP-8 at fifteen

The first real experiment — and it was Einstein's

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My other grandfather invented chaff, and died at forty-six

Radar, chaff, and the Stanford lab at the center of Silicon Valley

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Padmasree Warrior heard the pitch that produced our first commercial customer

The pitch that produced the first commercial customer

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Patrick Nettles answered 'noted' and 'done' — the two best one-word replies in this record

Caltech physics PhD installed as EVP/COO by the board; the first executive Hare could talk to in first principles

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Peggy Hamburg: a drink at the Aspen bar, and three hours at the FDA

Met at the Aspen Health VIP bar c. 2009, before knowing who she was; her food-safety emergency became the FDA meeting where Eric Haseltine said RNS was the only viable approach he had seen

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Ray Ozzie built Lotus Notes — I knew him at Lotus and again at Microsoft

The architect of the era's defining collaboration software, known across two companies

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Resilient Network Systems: Esther Dyson, the ODNI, and the IRS deployment

The trust network, and the intelligence years

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Resilient Networks, Inc.

The original Resilient — threads, the GSA's RTS, and the SOX killer app

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Revolution Health: Steve Case, Colin Powell, Carly Fiorina — and the wall they hit

Consumer-controlled health, 2005 — and the wall it hit

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Richard Spires, IRS and DHS Chief Information Officer, became my President

IRS CIO, then DHS CIO — consultant, then President of Resilient

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Rob Glaser went from Microsoft to found RealNetworks

Microsoft, then RealNetworks

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Robert Bass's Oak Hill: the fund that took my company

Three rounds, a silver bullet, and the end of Hare's tenure

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

One of Hare's closest friends and mentors; VP of Sales to Hare's Director of Product Management; the Bix's lunches

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Russ DeLeon put $1 million into Resilient — and lost WebShield's first cheque to a fight with Chevron

One of Hare's best friends: Evolve's VP of International Business Development in London, then an investor twice over — once completed, once pulled back for a rainforest

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Sandra Smith, who turned my relationships into paying deals — starting with the first million at BP

VP of Marketing & Software Alliances at Consilient; negotiated the BP safety-incident deal in London, September 2000. Her LinkedIn still lists BP as the marquee account.

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Sanjay Chheda of Databricks — a high-leverage node

Databricks — a high-leverage node

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Satya Nadella is one degree away, twice

James Phillips was his strategy advisor and core execution leader; the IFC summit stage; the record maps the paths honestly

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Sir John Browne asked me to teach Tony Hayward to think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur

The geologist in line for the top job, met privately at Browne's request — and the safety application they worked on together carries the record's heaviest irony

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Société Générale's venture unit firmed a $135 million pre-money term sheet — then the decade ended

$15m preferred at $135m pre-money, firmed in late Fall 2000, from discussions begun on the BP trip. What happened to it is an open ask; what happened instead is source record S-023.

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Stanford's Electronics Research Laboratory, where Hewlett and Packard visited

The epicentre of the nascent Valley

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Steve Ballmer and the Microsoft executive crucible

The executive crucible

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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

HP as a teenager, Terman's Valley, an Oregon commune, India, Zen — the parallels the record can actually show; and the borrowed Ferrari, the Z8, and the woman who connects them

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Ordered by era

Undated, or across the whole record113

AJ Agarwal lost $200,000 in the coup — then saved the company for $40,000 and a BMW Z8

Adam Bosworth mentored me at Microsoft, then said it could not be done

Aetna funded three and a half years of proof — the deployments this corpus cites everywhere

Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Google's first cheque, and gave me Bill Joy's email

Arjay Miller, Ford's president and Stanford's dean, whose name is on the award

BP: Lord John Browne proposed crowdsourcing on our platform in 2001

Bill Coleman, co-founder of BEA Systems, was CEO of Resilient

Bill Joy: “Bill knew.”

Blyth Software: Omnis, DEC, and the Immaculate Revolution

Ceridian bought Tesseract for $52M — then sent the cease-and-desist that met the $90 million story

Cisco Systems, and five meetings with John Morgridge

Congressman Billy Tauzin opened the door to Boston

David Baron opened our first meeting with 'everything we told you was a lie'

David Cheriton, who wrote one of Google's first cheques — and made the introduction

David Marquardt, Microsoft's first outside investor, opened the door

Dianne Feinstein, whom I first met at her cabin above Aspen

Digital Equipment Corporation paid millions for one connector

Dr Marie Charles nominated me for the Aspen Institute: “audacious to the point of recklessness”

Dr. Carolyn Clancy ran AHRQ when the advocacy landed

Dwayne Walker ran the group I sat in at Microsoft — the Client-Server Applications Group, 1991–92

Ed Ekstrom made me pick one vertical — and opened the Utah corridor

Ed Kozel, twice Cisco's CTO and a Santa Fe Institute regular

Eric Haseltine, formerly of the ODNI, put five doctorates in one room to break it

Eric Schmidt, before he was Eric Schmidt

Erik Freed built the company that became Consilient while I was on sabbatical

Fred Terman, the father of Silicon Valley, was my grandfather's mentor

Garth Saloner, later Dean of Stanford GSB, co-taught the Grove class

Greg Schott, GSB '91 friend, refined Resilient's business plan at MDV — then MuleSoft, then Salesforce

Hewlett-Packard, and the spools of solid gold wire

I named the missing layer at Microsoft in 1991. Thirty-five years later it is still missing

In-Q-Tel: the CIA's venture unit, where Hare was a regular in Rosslyn

Jeanne Bayless of Blyth Software

Jim Allchin, architect of Windows NT, sat in the next chair

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

Jim Gray, Turing laureate, on transactions and what settlement requires

Jim Malernee of Cornerstone Research, and “a leech on a maggot”

Jim Routh heard the pitch at a CISO summit, then funded seven million dollars of the proof

John Chambers and the Cisco acquisition machine

John Leggate of BP taught me to navigate the executive culture — over James Bond and drink

John Morgridge gave me five meetings at Cisco headquarters

Jonathan Schwartz wrote NeXT software before he ran Sun

Kat Mahan championed this work at every role since Surescripts — and her LinkedIn proves it

Martin Hellman, Turing laureate: he taught Hare the cryptography, then invested

Michael Daniel's White House cybersecurity team took the briefings in 2013–14

Michael Minor called me the smartest GSB graduate in forty years — then I led the coup against him

Michael Spence, Nobel laureate: why he took Vice Chairman and not the chair

Microsoft, where I named the missing layer in 1991

Mohr Davidow Ventures, where I met Sue Siegel and refined Resilient's plan

My first real experiment was Einstein's, run on a PDP-8 at fifteen

My other grandfather invented chaff, and died at forty-six

Padmasree Warrior heard the pitch that produced our first commercial customer

Patrick Nettles answered 'noted' and 'done' — the two best one-word replies in this record

Peggy Hamburg: a drink at the Aspen bar, and three hours at the FDA

Ray Ozzie built Lotus Notes — I knew him at Lotus and again at Microsoft

Resilient Network Systems: Esther Dyson, the ODNI, and the IRS deployment

Resilient Networks, Inc.

Revolution Health: Steve Case, Colin Powell, Carly Fiorina — and the wall they hit

Richard Spires, IRS and DHS Chief Information Officer, became my President

Rob Glaser went from Microsoft to found RealNetworks

Robert Bass's Oak Hill: the fund that took my company

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

Russ DeLeon put $1 million into Resilient — and lost WebShield's first cheque to a fight with Chevron

Sandra Smith, who turned my relationships into paying deals — starting with the first million at BP

Sanjay Chheda of Databricks — a high-leverage node

Satya Nadella is one degree away, twice

Sir John Browne asked me to teach Tony Hayward to think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur

Société Générale's venture unit firmed a $135 million pre-money term sheet — then the decade ended

Stanford's Electronics Research Laboratory, where Hewlett and Packard visited

Steve Ballmer and the Microsoft executive crucible

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

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

Sun Microsystems: Bechtolsheim, Joy, and the networking decade

TGV Software: the class project that opened every door after

Terry Milholland, the IRS Chief Technology Officer who sponsored the deployment

Tesseract: a mainframe company turned client-server for a 500% return

The FDA: the agency the Trust Network kept walking into

The Markle Foundation, and the wall the health council hit

The patent portfolio: nine filings, 2,091 claims — and the allowables that money, not examiners, killed