Renamed to reach Wilson — BP from the top, $30M raised, and the silver bullet.
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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 VisionLong-Term Capital Management did not fail because its positions were wrong. They were right, and they paid — to somebody else. It failed at a layer…
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 VisionAccess in Silicon Valley is usually described as networking. What actually happened here was narrower and more interesting: a small number of people…
Open →Realizing the Grand VisionIn one September, every thread this record cares about ran through one account: how relationships become revenue, why computation must travel to the…
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 →Realizing the Grand VisionIn February 2001, Consilient paid $50,000 to be Platinum sponsor of the first O'Reilly P2P conference — buying a place on the keynote stage alongside…
Open →Vice Chairman of Consilient, and the introduction into Cisco
Open →PersonThe Aspen lunch, and passions that ran to sustainability
Open →OrganizationNuclear safety systems — and a position outside orthodoxy
Open →PersonCTO 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 →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 →Person“You're like Steve Jobs. You almost got me to invest, and I don't invest in anything.”
Open →PersonThe closest of Hare's Nobel-laureate mentorships — thirteen years, from a contradicted lecture to an investment in Consilient
Open →PersonVP of Marketing & Software Alliances at Consilient; negotiated the BP safety-incident deal in London, September 2000. Her…
Open →PersonGroup CIO without an IT background: North Sea driller, president of the Baku operation, hilarious, and the best guide to BP a…
Open →PersonThe geologist in line for the top job, met privately at Browne's request — and the safety application they worked on together…
Open →PersonThe oil CEO who was actually an environmentalist: Beyond Petroleum, the fuel-strike week, and a vision Wall Street refused to fund
Open →EventBond'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…
Open →Every episode above distills from these. Where a page and its source differ, the source governs.
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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-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-064 · 2026-08-17“VP, Marketing & Software Alliances — Consilient · Full-time — May 2000 - Oct 2001 · Berkeley, CA. The Consilient…”
Open →In his own words · S-065 · 2026-08-17“I forgot to add the point I was going to make about the dinner in London - Sandra steadfastly ignored my hand signals…”
Open →In his own words · S-067 · 2026-08-17“I checked, and according to the records, uh, the the official cost to BP was sixty five billion dollars pretax, uh, but…”
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-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 →In his own words · S-119 · 2026-08-25“[Gemini brief, verbatim:] The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference (February 14–16, 2001, Westin St. Francis, San…”
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