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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.
It's Jeanne Bayless. Biographical info below. Note that John Bayless's involvement with CIENA, where Patrick Nettles was founder and CEO. I ran into Patrick at a conference a decade later, when he was CEO of CIENA, and he said that I had been right about Mike Minor, that he tried as hard as he could, but couldn't contain him - ended up leaving a couple of years later, and founding CIENA. Add a request for anyone to reconnect us with Jeanne or Patrick.
[Biographical summary as supplied:] Jeanne Bayless has built a highly successful career bridging early-stage tech entrepreneurship and venture capital, ultimately teaming up with her father to launch their own fund. Her father, Jon Bayless, is a prominent figure in the Texas tech and investment scene. After an early career that included working on the Apollo S-Band communication system, he made his name in venture capital as a general partner at the highly successful Sevin Rosen Management Company. Early Career & Blyth Software (pre-1993): after degrees in Computer Science from Texas A&M and Management Science from UT Dallas, she began at Texas Instruments; by 1992 she was at Blyth Software. AnswerSoft Founder & CEO (1993–1998): founded AnswerSoft, inbound call-center automation, led it to acquisition by Davox Corporation. 1998–1999: VP Marketing at Davox, then VP Marketing at NetBoost Corporation, acquired by Intel shortly after. 1999–2013: Director of Strategic Investments at Intel Capital; then 11+ years as U.S. Managing Partner of STAR Ventures ($1B under management). 2013–2015: CEO of Innovation Catalyst, Baton Rouge. 2016–present: co-founded Bayless Capital in Dallas with her father Jon Bayless, early-stage seed investments.
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Three corrections published. First: the entity previously carried as Genie Bayless is Jeanne Bayless, per Hare's confirmation; the page is renamed with a redirect from the old address, and every mention in the record is corrected. Second: her father is Jon Bayless (the dictation of S-070 said John); corrected throughout, with his Apollo S-Band and Sevin Rosen background now on the record — and the connective detail Hare flags: Jon Bayless's involvement with CIENA, the company Patrick Nettles left Blyth to found. Third: the Nettles arc completes — a decade after the revolution, as CEO of CIENA, Nettles told Hare at a conference that Hare had been right about Mike Minor, that he had tried as hard as he could but could not contain him, and had left a couple of years later to found CIENA. The vindication is Hare's account of Nettles's words and is graded as such. Hare's standing request, now on both pages: anyone who can reconnect him with Jeanne Bayless or Patrick Nettles is asked to do so, with these pages as the reason. The biographical summary's details are as supplied and lightly flagged for verification where they harden into dates.
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