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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.
Ray Ozzie — Founder & Executive Chairman, Blues Inc.
Blues — Founder & Executive Chairman, Dec 2018 – Present. SAFECAST — Director, Apr 2011 – Present, Tokyo. Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Director, Apr 2013 – Apr 2026. balena — Director, Jun 2016 – Jan 2026. Talko Inc. — Founder & CEO, Jan 2012 – Dec 2015 (purchased by Microsoft December 2015). Electronic Privacy Information Center — Director, Mar 2012 – Mar 2015.
Microsoft Corporation — Chief Software Architect, Apr 2005 – Dec 2010. Assumed the CSA role in June 2006, when chairman/CSA Bill Gates announced his intent to relinquish the role; responsible for overall technical strategy and product architecture, and for driving the transition to services and the cloud; led concept development labs including the 'Red Dog' project led by Dave Cutler and Amitabh Srivastava that grew to become Microsoft's Azure.
Groove Networks — Founder & CEO, 1997–2005. Founded to create personally-empowering, secure, mobile, ad hoc, decentralized collaboration software; co-founders Ken Moore, Jack Ozzie, and Eric Patey. Purchased by Microsoft in April 2005.
Iris Associates, Inc. — Founder & CEO, 1984–1997. Founded to create what became Lotus Notes, the defining enterprise groupware and email product; co-founded by Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell; purchased by Lotus Development in 1994 and by IBM in 1995.
Lotus Development — Software Developer / Development Manager, 1983–1984. Hired by Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs just after Lotus 1-2-3 Release 1 shipped; led a small team to create Lotus Symphony.
Earlier: Newco (1982, the functional specifications for what would become Notes — inspired by PLATO, Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart; failed to obtain funding); Software Arts (1981–1982, hired by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston); Microcosm (1981, failed to obtain funding); Data General (1979–1981, hired by Jonathan Sachs).
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Anchors the corrected chronology: Groove Networks 1997–2005 fits the Massachusetts-offices meeting and the February 2001 O'Reilly P2P appearance (S-119, independently verified); Microsoft from April 2005 (the Groove acquisition) fits the Redmond meeting 'just after he arrived' (S-112); and the Lotus hiring by Mitch Kapor confirms the Kapor connection existed in the background even though the introduction hedge of S-112 is superseded by S-114. Lightly condensed from the profile's display text for length; no content altered.
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