3 ms·

[flagged]

• tsunamifury 3y ago
  Yea but if you have ever met Larry Ellison he’s a total psychopath. Agree on Sundar.
  • jckahn 3y ago
    Something tells me there’s an Ellison story here!
  • hyggetrold 3y ago
    “The difference between God and Larry Ellison is that God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.”
• rdtsc 3y ago
  For some reason I always think of him as Hans Gruber from Die Hard. I find they look very much alike. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gruber https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gruber https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison#/media/File%3ALarry_Ellison_picture.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison#/media/File%3A...
• phs318u 3y ago
  Wow, I hadn’t heard that quote before but is is scary accurate and broadly applicable (think ‘psychopathic’ executives and politicians). I often wonder about those type of folks whether some transformation of mind occurs that turns a previously reasonable human being into a ‘lawnmower’, or whether they were born that way and directed their appetites into channels where they could maximise the expression of their ‘lawnmower-mess’. EDIT: “ broadly applicable”
• throwaway5211 3y ago
  (throwaway for obvious reasons) The comparison to Oracle is pretty good. Working for Sundar's Google feels like working for a company whose only product is quarterly earnings reports. I have no idea what the company's mission is anymore besides Number Go Up. The old descriptions of Google's creative, disruptive, academic culture seem very foreign at this point. Our raw materials are the brains of new Comp Sci graduates, and our product is money.