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Investors and capital

Venture firms, angels, banks and the instruments they used — including the two that ended a company, both of which its founder proposed or agreed to.

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Accelerator tier progression — Tiers 1 to 4

From ten shared EP3 Accelerators to continuous formation for the underserved — the corpus's four-tier growth plan

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Anne Hare

The first to reconnect — lost with William Richards over Santa Clarita, July 12, 1987

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

A $10m lead investment in crowdsourced solutions — in 2001

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Cornerstone Research: fourteen people, and Myron Scholes on the roster

Expert testimony, and where arguments learn to survive attack

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Dave Brown of Oak Hill took the term sheet back and changed the terms

Oak Hill operating partner — who took the term sheet back to the investor

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

CTO at Evolve, founder of InfoCanvas — which became Consilient

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I signed the clause that removed me as CEO. Two years later they used it

A clause he signed, and the reason there was nothing he could do

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Larry Sonsini took one young entrepreneur a year. I got thirty minutes

One young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.

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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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Myron Scholes, Nobel laureate: privately uneasy about LTCM's markets, months before the fall

The closest of Hare's Nobel-laureate mentorships — thirteen years, from a contradicted lecture to an investment in Consilient

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Ray Conley was twenty-nine when he was made CEO of my company

Twenty-nine, and in over his head in the worst spring in a generation

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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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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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Skin in the game made my investor behave worse, not better — and it cost me the company

Bass's model fixes the Spence problem. Then it creates a second one.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business, class of 1992

1990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up

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Steve Jobs outbid me for the BMW Z8 — and the dealer wasn't bluffing

Bond's car, sawn in half off Baku in the film; first seen near Trafalgar Square; lost at Sunnyvale BMW to the one buyer the story couldn't top

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The Consilient Meta Firm

An accelerator anchored by professional capacity instead of capital

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The UTM Premiums — Launch, Governance, and Adaptive

Fifteen premiums in three categories, defined from the corpus — and the genome machinery that embeds, inherits, and amplifies them

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Tom Dohrmann ran McKinsey's global public sector practice

McKinsey's public sector lead — met in one decade, reconnected by accident in the next

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Why insider trading can't be prosecuted away — and what actually removes it

Remove the informational rent and the crime has nothing to steal

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“Where do our margins go?” — what Goldman Sachs asked when I showed Obama's team how to prevent the next crash

Regulatory Infrastructure for the 21st Century — presented while the meltdown was still happening

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A clerical error put me in a room with Myron Scholes and Gary Becker at twenty-two

A résumé sorted into the wrong stack put a twenty-two-year-old into a fourteen-person litigation consulting firm whose expert witnesses were Nobel laureates. Almost everything downstream fol

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All art, no science: Larry Sonsini's blueprint, the Ceridian bluff, and the $90 million story

Larry Sonsini took Hare as his entrepreneur of the year — for the Berkeley loyalty and the Microsoft bridge — and handed him venture capital's true blueprint in one speech: all art, no scien

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Consilient — Infocanvas, the advisors, and the term sheet he passed on

Primary source S-008 · Dictated in session

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Evolve Software — the platform, the pivot, the IPO, the margin call

Primary source S-007 · Dictated in session

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Evolve, Consilient, Resilient: what actually ended each one

From outside, Evolve, Consilient and Resilient look like a decade of near-misses. The outcomes were real. But two of the three were ended by instruments Hare designed or agreed to himself —

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From a $135 million term sheet to a $15 million shakedown, in one year flat

In late Fall 2000, Consilient held a committed $15 million preferred financing at a $135 million pre-money valuation — $150 million post, the reconciliation that settles the record's three c

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GM's worst workforce became its best plant. No robots — 3×5 paper cards

The most productive, highest-quality plant in General Motors' network was the one with the lowest capital investment and no robots — because the leverage was never machinery. It was a coordi

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How a commune kid reached Michael Spence, Larry Sonsini and Kleiner Perkins

How a commune-raised engineer with no capital reached the chief executives of Cisco and BP, the top technology lawyer in Silicon Valley, and a founding partner of Kleiner Perkins.

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I designed the note and signed the clause that ended Consilient — with Michael Spence as Vice Chairman

The company Hare renamed in order to reach E. O. Wilson. It reached about a hundred people with revenue from Intel, BP and AIG, and was ended by two contractual mechanisms — one he designed

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Myron Scholes, Nobel laureate, was my mentor for thirteen years — then his own cleverness convicted him

A thirteen-year relationship with the man who co-authored the equation underpinning modern derivatives markets — beginning when a twenty-two-year-old contradicted him in front of his own fir

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Oliver Cromwell accidentally founded the Royal Society. Isaac Newton then fixed the money

A boy spent his childhood reading the history of science — the personal lives of Euclid, Archimedes, Newton, Riemann, Einstein — out of a complete run of National Geographic in a cold room a

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Personal narrative vignettes — Heidelberg, the Whitsons, Evolve, the Woodhills, Doug Ayer

Primary source S-152 · Hare's first-person vignette document ('Vignettes — Evolve, Woodhills, Doug Ayer, etc.'), supplied 31 August 2026 and transcribed verbatim. Written by the author for t

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Steve Jobs got the car, Tony Blair got the CEO back, and Sandra got the deal

In one September, every thread this record cares about ran through one account: how relationships become revenue, why computation must travel to the context instead of the reverse, what pati

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Sue Simon — and the LA Times record that settles Anne Hare's crash

Primary source S-111 · Hare's message in the integrator thread, 25 August 2026, transcribed verbatim with spellings preserved (the LA Times research summary was pasted twice in the original

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The Gemini compilation: Whitson-to-ARPANET, the D1 corridor, and the healthcare pivot

Primary source S-100 · A compilation produced in Hare's Gemini research sessions (which have access to his email archive and filing system) and supplied for merge; preserved verbatim below.

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The Meta Firm defined — a network-centric firm, incubated by the Consilient Innovation Network

Primary source S-097 · Hare's message, transcribed verbatim.

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The Perry ruling, Dodi and Anne Hare, the Turlington quest retired, and the mentor rulings

Primary source S-110 · Hare's message in the integrator thread, 25 August 2026, transcribed verbatim with spellings preserved. Given as rulings on the Stage 1b circle flags, and carrying two

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The Resilient corporate documents — 83(b), the Hellman FMV letter, and the May 2010 Series A consents

Primary source S-126 · Five corporate documents from Hare's archive, received 25 August 2026, described rather than fully transcribed; documented grade. One redaction is absolute and noted:

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The SG reconciliation, the Oak Hill note's design, Zaplet, and the DC ecosystem

Primary source S-073 · Hare's message, with supplied research on Zaplet/FireDrop preserved as supplied.

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The bridge, the BP deal, and the silver bullet

Primary source S-023 · Dictated in session

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The chalet, and what the Ledger actually says

Primary source S-031 · Dictated in session, with research

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The dictation sessions — Berkeley through Consilient

Primary source S-029 · Dictated in session, transcribed verbatim from voice

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The immaculate revolution: a secret coup for a Clinton backer, run by the boss's protégé

A barely-public company's stock rose ten-fold on revenue produced by the one decision its CEO opposed, while the board ignored a year of fired truth-tellers. Fixing it required an operation

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The master document: twenty vignettes, the Executive Catalyst Graph, and the architectural ontology

Primary source S-101 · The exhaustive master compilation from Hare's dedicated Gemini research thread (with access to his Gmail, files, and historical RAG sources), supplied as the integrati

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The reboot, the full ratchet, and the conflict

Primary source S-024 · Dictated in session

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The term sheets of late 2000 — SG Cowen, the wedding circuit, and the analysts

Primary source S-069 · Hare's dictation, transcribed verbatim with spellings and disfluencies preserved. The dictation ends mid-sentence.

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The two Resilients — Hare's account of the split, the bankruptcy aftermath, and the early RNS team

Primary source S-125 · Hare's message in the integrator thread, 25 August 2026, transcribed verbatim with spellings preserved. Accompanied by five corporate documents, described in S-126.

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What Long-Term Capital Management proves: Nobel laureates, $4bn lost, and positions that were right

In September 1998 a hedge fund run by two Nobel laureates lost more than four billion dollars in weeks and had to be rescued by fourteen banks. This episode is about why it failed —

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Why Hedera — the launch conversation

Primary source S-017 · Archival Source Record v6, Session 1 with Marc Singer, 18 May 2026

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Why Kleiner, NEA and Oak Hill structurally cannot hold this

A ten-year fund life cannot hold a multi-century instrument. The structures that can are the ones organized around perpetual trusts — and there are not many of them.

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Zoom session — Jeff Weiss & Jonathan (May 23, 2026): the Einstein-mode account and the Google summit retold

Primary source S-142 · From the corrected Zoom transcript archive (Archival Source Record v6, Part XIX), verbatim and complete — the archive's longest session at roughly 43,000 words. Zoom c

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Zoom session — Lokahi Strategy & Catalyst Contribution Graphs (June 3, 2026)

Primary source S-131 · From the corrected Zoom transcript archive (Archival Source Record v6, Part XIX), verbatim except three sealed passages, each marked inline where it occurs. Zoom conse

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Zoom session — Marc Singer & Jonathan, June 4, 2026

Primary source S-137 · From the corrected Zoom transcript archive (Archival Source Record v6, Part XIX), verbatim except one sealed exchange, marked inline. Zoom consent basis per S-129; pub

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Zoom session — Marc Singer & Jonathan, the full May 19, 2026 conversation

Primary source S-136 · From the corrected Zoom transcript archive (Archival Source Record v6, Part XIX), verbatim and complete. Rich Moyer present for part of the session. Zoom consent basis

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Zoom session — Rich Moyer & Marc Singer: the QPN Overview (June 8, 2026)

Primary source S-132 · From the corrected Zoom transcript archive (Archival Source Record v6, Part XIX), verbatim except two sealed passages, each marked inline. Zoom consent basis per S-129

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Zoom sessions — Marc Singer & Jonathan, the condensed pair (May 18–19, 2026)

Primary source S-135 · From the corrected Zoom transcript archive (Archival Source Record v6, Part XVIII), the archive's condensed session records, verbatim. Zoom consent basis per S-129; pu

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