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Ellison's strength, I felt like, has always been in the field of sales and ruthless contract negotiation rather than technical innovation - a "golden touch" tha
by spamizbad 2y ago
Ellison's strength, I felt like, has always been in the field of sales and ruthless contract negotiation rather than technical innovation - a "golden touch" that doesn't benefit disruptive scientific innovation, but might instead prove more fruitful if applied to an a mature technology that just needs to proliferate out there in the world.
- gadders 2y agoThere was an interesting article on him linked from The Diff newsletter today. It seems a large part of his strengths are strategic M&A. "1. Larry Ellison has an insight which leads to a breakthrough initiative which has the potential to reposition Oracle to the forefront of the industry, completely bypassing the competition. 2. It works. 3. Larry Ellison checks out to go sailing or play tennis or something for like a year. 4. Oracle gets into trouble. New entrants and existing competitors are eating away at its market share, and Oracle is losing head-to-head.4 5. GOTO 1." https://www.notboring.co/p/who-is-larry-ellison https://www.notboring.co/p/who-is-larry-ellison
- soared 2y ago6. Divest losing tens of billions in the industries where this strategy doesn’t work (see adtech, oracle data cloud - few billions in acquisitions just closed down not even sold) 7. Doesn’t matter, still have billions to spare and can eat huge failures
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