The platform, the pivot, and one of the last three IPOs of the bubble.
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Consilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
Open →PersonHarvard then Stanford, Tesseract, Benchmark — and a game of chicken with a city bus
Open →PersonOne young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.
Open →PersonOne of Hare's oldest friends and the second patron in this record — whose Capitol Hill house held a future Senator and a future…
Open →PersonOne of Hare's best friends: Evolve's VP of International Business Development in London, then an investor twice over — once…
Open →PersonThe record holds one fact and says so
Open →EventThe unpaid eight-person team, the overheard coup, and the room where 'cowboys again' was announced
Open →EventThe Jackson Square legend — lower-level table near the bathroom — where Louis Woodhill tested San Francisco's limits
Open →EventThe Cowper Street epicenter of tech power-dining, where Doug Ayer's ultimatum met 'I decline your offer'
Open →OrganizationThe company of the vignette cycle: Draper's term sheet, the Woodhill coup, the walkout, and two Series A term sheets from a $250k…
Open →PersonThe venture pioneer who would have led Evolve's seed; the record holds him at both dinners
Open →PersonThe synthetic-fuels Texan whose COO stint lasted from a Bix punchline to an Il Fornaio ultimatum
Open →PersonPartyGaming co-founder, and a truly good friend — by the author's own recorded criterion
Open →PersonThe H&Q venture legend, one of Evolve's two competing Series A offers
Open →PersonOf the $250,000 syndicate that made Evolve cowboys again
Open →PersonEvolve co-founder; beside Hare at Bix; unflappable at Steiner Street
Open →PersonOf the Steiner Street founding team, present for the cowboys-again announcement
Open →PersonOf the Steiner Street founding team; the verdict the record most enjoys
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