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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.
Add that I originally met David Agus through Bill Haseltine, when he was hooking me up with all sorts of notable people - Michael Milken, Steve Case, and many others. David Agus was the prostate cancer doctor to Summer Redstone and other hollywood mogols, and then Andy Grove, and then word got around - anybody who was in the tech or entertainment world and got prostate cancer went to David for a consult. I met him when he was at Cedar Sinai near UCLA, and in our first meeting where I explained the Resilient Trust Network, he took a 15 minute call in the middle of the session, with me sitting there listening to David's side of the conversation. After he hung up, he said "that was a young kid by the name of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook - he is really interested in doing something in healthcare." We had a chat about how social networks could facilitate patient-centered care and wellness, a conversation which never stopped.
David Agus became a major mentor, hooked me up wtih Navigenics (funded by Sue Siegel at Mohr Davidow Ventures) and many other top tier venture funds. He also worked on a proteomics venture with Danny Hillis (famous technologist who used to work for Eric Haseltine at Disney Imagineering, who I later met when he co-founded the Long Now Foundation with Stuart Brand, Peter Schwartz and others. I met probably a dozen times in person with David Agus over the years, including four times at USC when he got Larry Ellison to fund an institute for human longevity there. That evolved into the Ellison Institute of Technology, including a unit in the UK at Oxford, which involves Tony Blair. I've met Larry Ellison a number of times socially, dated quite a few of his former girlfriends and paramours. Tell David Agus that he should give me a call - we can cut Oracle's cost of capital dramatically, and allow Larry to realize all his dreams much faster. Also add a record for MD Portals and it's founder, with connections to Jack Lewin, Ira Klein, Rich Moyer, and Milliman.
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Display copy corrects three spellings against the public record, published here: Sumner Redstone (dictated 'Summer'), Cedars-Sinai (dictated 'Cedar Sinai'), and Stewart Brand (dictated 'Stuart') — the last already a page in this record. The Zuckerberg quotation is Agus's words as Hare recalls them from one side of an overheard call, and is graded exactly that way. The relay request is executed on the Agus page per the record's established mechanism. MD Portals' founder is not named in the dictation and the record declines to guess: the page carries the connections named — Jack Lewin, Ira Klein, Rich Moyer, Milliman — and files the founder's name as its first ask, along with pages the graph now visibly owes for Klein, Moyer and Milliman. The Long Now thread on Stewart Brand's page, filed earlier as 'when it is ready to be written,' begins here: Danny Hillis, Peter Schwartz and the co-founding named, with the Eric Haseltine / Disney Imagineering link closing a loop between the record's two Haseltine threads.
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