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Dictated by Jonathan Paul Hare in working sessions with Claude (Anthropic) and transcribed in-session. Lightly cleaned for typographic errors and false starts; wording, sequence and emphasis preserved. Not an audio transcript. Where the distilled page differs from the source, the source governs.
Can you update the narrative about Dave Marquardt and Wyc Grousbeck and the project we did in Andy Grove's class. I said the peer-to-peer local networking company was TOPS, but I asked Google's AI to find the actual company, and it came up with TGV Software.
Also connect it to Blyth Software and Omnis — one of our biggest customers was DEC, who paid us millions of dollars to develop and maintain a connector for RDB, which was their relational database product that competed with DB2, Oracle, and Sybase SQL Server (and MS SQL Server). Omnis was the only client-server application tool that worked across Mac and Windows, and all of those databases.
TGV's variant of TOPS also connected to VAXs, which I was very familiar with — it was the primary OS used in engineering departments at UC Berkeley on DEC minicomputers when I was there, along with DEC PDP OS, which was used for real-time control systems in manufacturing and scientific applications.
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Research findings applied: TGV Software, originally 'Two Guys and a VAX', built cross-platform TCP/IP software bridging Macintosh, PC, Unix and VMS. Technology Venture Investors was a major backer and David Marquardt sat on its board; the 1994 reference list in Hare's files confirms Marquardt as General Partner, Technology Venture Investors. TGV was acquired by Cisco in 1996 for approximately $115 million. On the date: Fortune places a Grove-taught Stanford GSB class in 1991; Stanford's own account says Grove and Burgelman taught together from 1992 and had collaborated on research since 1989. Hare's MBA ran to June 1992. The project therefore sits in the 1990–92 window, most likely spring 1991, and the discrepancy is recorded rather than resolved.
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