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> I do not believe a man would have been treated the same way. This. Larry Ellison fucks around on a sailboat. Larry is busy with "X" for years. And no one bat

• smacktoward 10y ago
  Oracle and Google both make astonishing amounts of money. Nobody (least of all shareholders) is marching on their headquarters with torches and pitchforks. So nobody cares what the leaders of those companies do with their time -- so long as their companies continue to make astonishing amounts of money. If the money dries up, rest assured that the line of people demanding that the leaders start paying attention to the business would rapidly become quite long.
  • dexterdog 10y ago
    Exactly. Ellison seen on a mega boat tells you how well he is doing and thus the company. MM answering low-level employee emails in the middle of the night says she doesn't know what's going on.
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > This. Larry Ellison fucks around on a sailboat. Larry is busy with "X" for years. And no one bats an eye. If Oracle's valuation was less than the combined valuation of holdings it owned in other companies such that its core business had an apparent negative valuation, there'd probably be more negative attention to Larry's extracurricular activities. When you are seen to be succeeding, no one questions your methods -- success implicitly validates them. That's not about sex or gender, its about apparent success.
• pfarnsworth 10y ago
  He's not the CEO of Oracle anymore. He's the executive chairman only.