I'd agree with this. Ellison definitely seemed to have more of a steady hand when he had Ray Lane as COO; a textbook pragmatist, Lane was the diametric opposit

I'd agree with this. Ellison definitely seemed to have more of a steady hand when he had Ray Lane as COO; a textbook pragmatist, Lane was the diametric opposite of Ellison, and the balance between the two worked really well.