The account as dictated, preserved verbatim. Everything elsewhere on this site that derives from it is a distillation — and where the two differ, this governs.
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.
From the contemporaneous documents rather than recollection:
Stanford GSB, MBA June 1992, Arjay Miller Scholar — graduated in the top 1% of the class. UC Berkeley, B.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, December 1987: National Merit Scholar, Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar on full scholarship, Alumni Scholar.
Tesseract Corporation, from autumn 1993: a struggling mainframe HR software company restructured into a client-server applications vendor, with the turnaround completed by an all-cash sale yielding a 500% single-year return to investors. Patrick C. Sommers, president of Ceridian Employer Services, was chairman.
Blyth Software: Walt Smiley on the board, formerly founder and CEO of Systematix; John Mann, SVP of strategic alliances, later VP of worldwide sales at Scientific Atlanta.
Evolve Software, founded February 1995: raised $34 million across several rounds from angels, venture firms and mezzanine investors. Michael Seasholes chairman, John Bantleman president and COO, Marc Ferrie SVP engineering, Erik Freed CTO. Board included David Yoffie; Larry Sonsini outside counsel. The category the author named was Enterprise Services Automation, later Professional Services Automation.
Consilient, Inc., spring 1999 to autumn 2001: $30 million raised in three rounds. Partnerships with IBM, Sun, Accenture, CapGemini, SAIC, AMS, CommerceOne, Intel and Vitria; customers including BP and AIG.
Dave Marquardt is listed in the 1994 reference sheet as Member, Board of Directors, Microsoft Corporation and General Partner, Technology Venture Investors — which independently confirms the TVI connection behind the TGV board seat.
Corrections applied downstream are recorded here rather than made silently. The source above is unaltered.
One discrepancy recorded rather than resolved: the 2001 resume states a signed $25M term sheet led by GE Equity, disrupted by September 11th. Hare's dictated account elsewhere in this record describes passing on a $15M term sheet at a $130M valuation from Société Générale's venture unit. These may be separate rounds at different stages, or a conflation. Both are recorded; neither has been removed.
Each page below is a distillation of the account above. The chain is recorded in both directions so that a reader, a journalist or a future system can walk from a claim back to what was actually said.
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