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Attached and below are some threads from my interactions with Gemini to refresh my memory about Asera and various connections there.
Also, add an entry for James Phillips, who I met via Scott Sandell when Scott first started at NEA, and he and Doug Ayer of ICP invested in Actional. I did a strategy and project management project for James Philliops at Actional. I added a bio for James farther below.
Rohit De Souza was another tech due-diligence guy Ray Lane relied upon, who I knew from Asera.
[Supplied research, condensed; full citations in the original:] Warren Weiss is widely known as 'Bunny'; General Partner at Foundation Capital from 2002, now Partner Emeritus; founder and partner at WestWave Capital; served as President and CEO of Asera for two years, his last role before Foundation; a four-time CEO. James Phillips: self-taught developer; co-founded Fifth Generation Systems at 17 (acquired by Symantec); technology investment banker at UBS PaineWebber; SVP Products and Marketing at Actional Corporation (web services and XML management; Actional later acquired by Progress Software); co-founded Akimbi Systems 2004 (acquired by VMware); co-founded Couchbase and served as CEO; joined Microsoft 2012 as CVP and strategy advisor to Satya Nadella, built and launched Power BI — the first major product of Nadella's CEO tenure — and by 2020 was President of the Digital Transformation Platform Group, scaling it from 300 to over 15,000 people across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure AI/Data/IoT and industry clouds, to over $20 billion in annual revenue; stepped down April 2022; President of Financial Services at Stripe for one month; joined Google Cloud July 2023 as VP and advisor to CEO Thomas Kurian; Strategic Director at Madrona Venture Group; board of F5.
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Hare's direct facts, distinguished from the supplied research: he met James Phillips through Scott Sandell when Sandell first started at NEA; Sandell and Doug Ayer of ICP invested in Actional; and Hare did a strategy and project-management project for Phillips at Actional in the early 2000s. Rohit De Souza was among the technical due-diligence people Ray Lane relied on, known to Hare from the Asera orbit. The research blocks are supplied summaries with public citations and are graded as documentation of public careers, not as Hare's testimony; where the pages harden supplied details into dates, a verification flag travels with them. The Weiss research corroborates S-070's account of Asera's leadership and adds the Foundation Capital and WestWave arc.
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