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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.
Doug Merritt lived in Los Gatos starting when he was at Cisco.
Harold Hare was born probably around 1990 - i'll need to check, but use that as a placeholder.
[Career history, condensed from Doug Merritt's LinkedIn as supplied:] Chairman, CEO and President, Aviatrix, Jul 2023–present, Austin. Advisor, Investor and Board Member, self-employed, Jan 2022–present. Splunk: CEO Nov 2015–Nov 2021 — led the transformation from on-premise perpetual-license to cloud-native ARR; ARR from $220 million to $3.12 billion over the six-year tenure; employees from ~1,000 to over 7,000; 'changing every airplane part, while in flight, at high speed'; SVP Field Operations May 2014–Nov 2015, entering as senior leader over all customer-facing organizations (60%+ of employees and budget), becoming the internal succession candidate. Baynote: Board Member Jan 2011–Nov 2015; President and CEO Jan 2011–Apr 2012. Board Member, Birst, 2010–Nov 2015. SVP Product and Solution Marketing, Cisco Systems, May 2012–Apr 2014 — CMO-level portfolio marketing across all of Cisco; sales War Rooms influencing over $1.5B in FY13 revenue. EVP, GM and Corporate Officer, SAP, Feb 2005–Jan 2011 — reporting directly to the Executive Board; responsible for creation of greater than $1 billion of direct software license revenue; Global EVP & GM OnDemand Solutions (2010, 100%+ q/q growth); Global EVP & GM Premier Customer Network (2009, top 300 global accounts, 100%+ of assignment in a negative year); EVP, President & GM Business User Solutions (2005–2008, division from <$40m to >$400m license revenue, over $1 billion in acquisitions). VP & GM Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft, 2001–2004 — $1.0 billion division, 870 professionals in 20 countries; 17% revenue growth by year three; India development from 0 to 150. President, CEO, Founder, Icarian (acquired by WorkStream), 1996–2001 — one of the first cloud workforce-management applications and one of the first Kleiner Perkins Java Fund companies; SaaS revenue $0 to $12.5m, bookings to $35m, 80+ clients; sold to WorkStream in early 2001. Director of Sales, Patrol Software (acquired by BMC), 1993–1995, employee #4. Sales Manager, PowerSoft (acquired by Sybase), 1991–1993, employee #17. Account Executive, Oracle, 1989–1991 — the Utilities sector's first telesales rep. Staff Consultant, Accenture, 1987–1989.
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Two conflict rulings and one documentation upgrade. Ruling one: the S-094 conflict over which era Doug Merritt bought at The Cats resolves to the Cisco days — he lived in Los Gatos starting at Cisco, which his supplied LinkedIn dates to May 2012–April 2014; the estate page is corrected by extension. Ruling two: Harold Hare's birth year — the S-094 conflict between the outline's ~1980 and the narrative's shortly-after-1983/84 — is superseded by Hare's own placeholder: probably around 1990, to be checked; the record carries ~1990 marked explicitly as a placeholder pending his confirmation, and notes that all three candidate datings are preserved in the sources. The documentation upgrade: Merritt's page moves to documented on the supplied record, which also enriches the corpus's earlier account — the PC Forum meeting while he ran PeopleSoft's HR group dates to his 2001–2004 HCM tenure; the record's 'moved to SAP rather than work for Oracle' matches the 2004 Oracle acquisition and his Feb 2005 SAP start; the arc the record had compressed as SAP-then-Splunk gains its Baynote, Birst and Cisco chapters; and two grace notes land — he began his career at Oracle himself (1989–91, the Utilities sector's first telesales rep), which deepens the comedy of the later departure-over-Oracle, and his founding of Icarian (1996–2001), one of the first cloud workforce-management companies and Kleiner Perkins Java Fund companies, makes him and Hare contemporaneous founders — Icarian and Evolve building in the same years, before the friendship's PC Forum date.
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