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Back when Larry was offering to invest in companies I was thinking of starting, I asked him whether it was more important to be liked or respected. He surprised
by CurtMonash 11y ago
Back when Larry was offering to invest in companies I was thinking of starting, I asked him whether it was more important to be liked or respected. He surprised me by saying, with apparent sincerity, "liked".
What inspired me to ask is that John Cullinane had earlier volunteered the same question to me, and given the opposite answer, which also surprised me.
This was all in the late 1980s. And it was a staple of my conversations with Larry that he blast other people, commonly in quite humorous terms.
Larry's also the person who first told me of the bit about almost everybody thinking they were above average ...
- united893 11y agoHi Curt Curious to know why you think Larry stepped down as CEO recently. Also curious to know if you think Oracle will continue to thrive as a company and what it's biggest threat is today.
- rhizome 11y agolooks like someone's sitting on a techcrunch deadline...
- CurtMonash 11y agoPlease feel free to mail me directly with questions like that. I've also written quite a bit about Oracle on several of my blogs, especially at http://www.dbms2.com/category/products-and-vendors/oracle/ http://www.dbms2.com/category/products-and-vendors/oracle/ and http://www.softwarememories.com/category/companies/oracle/ http://www.softwarememories.com/category/companies/oracle/