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Evolve Software

The platform, the pivot, and one of the last three IPOs of the bubble.

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Lived, then learned

The story of Evolve Software

The room

Who carries Evolve Software

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Jonathan Paul Hare

Consilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from

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Val Vaden

Harvard then Stanford, Tesseract, Benchmark — and a game of chicken with a city bus

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Larry Sonsini

One young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.

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Jim Woodhill

One of Hare's oldest friends and the second patron in this record — whose Capitol Hill house held a future Senator and a future…

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Russ DeLeon

One of Hare's best friends: Evolve's VP of International Business Development in London, then an investor twice over — once…

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Doug Ayer

The record holds one fact and says so

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3040 Steiner Street

The unpaid eight-person team, the overheard coup, and the room where 'cowboys again' was announced

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Bix

The Jackson Square legend — lower-level table near the bathroom — where Louis Woodhill tested San Francisco's limits

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Il Fornaio, Garden Court

The Cowper Street epicenter of tech power-dining, where Doug Ayer's ultimatum met 'I decline your offer'

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Organization

Evolve Software

The company of the vignette cycle: Draper's term sheet, the Woodhill coup, the walkout, and two Series A term sheets from a $250k…

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Bill Draper

The venture pioneer who would have led Evolve's seed; the record holds him at both dinners

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Louis Woodhill

The synthetic-fuels Texan whose COO stint lasted from a Bix punchline to an Il Fornaio ultimatum

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Ruth Parasol

PartyGaming co-founder, and a truly good friend — by the author's own recorded criterion

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Bill Hambrecht

The H&Q venture legend, one of Evolve's two competing Series A offers

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Darby Williams

Of the $250,000 syndicate that made Evolve cowboys again

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Richie Saville

Evolve co-founder; beside Hare at Bix; unflappable at Steiner Street

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Corinne Martinez

Of the Steiner Street founding team, present for the cowboys-again announcement

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Tom Noyes

Of the Steiner Street founding team; the verdict the record most enjoys

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In his own words

The verbatim layer beneath Evolve Software

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Entangled

Where Evolve Software touches the other projections

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