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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.
Since you mentioned Berg was involved in stem cells, I am friends with Amy DuRoss, a former stanford student who led California's stem-cell initiative (Prop 71 or something?), and then I got to know her well at Navigenics, having been introduced to her by David Agus, the founder of Navigenics. I'm sure they both knew Paul Berg?
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Executed in v72m. amy-duross created after slug-check — his account first (friends; got to know her well at Navigenics; introduced by David Agus), the public record at web grade beside it (Crunchbase, Vineti, KPMG, BioLife, Mayo Clinic, all fetched or snippet-verified 1 Sep 2026): co-founder and executive director of Proposition 71, the $3B California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative of 2004 — his 'Prop 71 or something?' is exactly right — then chief of staff at CIRM, chief business officer at Navigenics (sold to Life Technologies 2012), GE Ventures, co-founder and CEO of Vineti, Stanford MBA and MA/BA in English, 2016 Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow, and as of 2025 a Mayo Venture Partner. His closing question — 'I'm sure they both knew Paul Berg?' — is recorded as his surmise, marked as such on the Berg and DuRoss pages: no source documents either relationship, but Berg was among stem-cell research's most prominent scientific advocates and Prop 71 is precisely where those paths would cross; DuRoss herself is the person best placed to answer, and the ask is on her page. This also gives paul-berg its first likely live route into the record's own network: Agus → DuRoss → Prop 71 → Berg.
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