Larry Ellison is the most dangerous CEO alive:
• Hired investigators to spy on Microsoft
• Waged a decade-long war against Google
• Plotted to buy Apple and make Steve Jobs the CEO
At 80, he looks younger than most 50-year-olds.
How he managed to do this is insane 🧵
Ellison was a close friend of Steve Jobs. When Jobs was thrown out of Apple in 1985, Ellison stood by him.
He plotted to buy Apple, make Steve Jobs the CEO, and give him 25% of the company.
But Jobs refused. Here's Ellison talking about it 👇
Oracle's market cap stands at a whopping $528 Billion today.
Ellison owns 43% of the company, making his net worth $227 Billion.
That's almost as much as that of Jeff Bezos - making him the third richest person in the world.
Ellison was an abandoned child.
Once he read a paper by IBM about a new database programming language called SQL.
Ellison took that paper and turned SQL into a database.
That led to the founding of Software Development Labs with $1,200.
But his entire life is filled with controversy.
In 2000, Microsoft dominated tech & faced an antitrust trial.
Ellison suspected Microsoft was secretly funding "independent" research groups.
So he hired private investigators to dig through Microsoft's trash.
The detectives' mission? Expose Microsoft's "covert activities."
They uncovered two organizations funded by Microsoft that released pro-Microsoft studies while posing as independents.
When the media asked Ellison, he replied:
"We weren't spying. We were exposing the truth!"
That's just the start...
Ellison sued Google for $9B, claiming Android infringed on Java copyrights.
If he'd won, it could've reshaped the entire mobile ecosystem.
Luckily for Android users, the Supreme Court ruled in Google's favor in 2021.
Ellison's philosophy is pretty simple:
"It's not enough to win, all others must lose."
People often say that the difference between God and Larry Ellison is that God doesn't think he's Larry.
Ellison's ruthlessness extends to the high seas too.
He poured hundreds of millions into America's Cup yacht racing.
In 2013, his Team Oracle USA pulled off a stunning comeback, winning 8 straight races.
The cost? A cool $200M for the trophy.
And if that wasn't enough...
Ellison is a tech kingmaker too.
In 2022, he gave $1B to Elon Musk for the Twitter takeover.
As Musk's mentor, Ellison joined other tech titans like Sequoia and Binance in funding the $44B deal.
While Ellison hated Microsoft, he had mad respect for Steve Jobs.
He says that Jobs was a control freak. But he just wouldn't stop until something had reached perfection.
Here's a video of him talking about Jobs 👇
And Ellison isn't stopping anytime soon.
He is now focused on "making death optional".
Only time will tell us if he succeed, but he has been doing it before Bryan Johnson even thought about it.
Ellison has already donated $350 million to anti-aging research.
(Larry is 80 now)
Ellison's funded projects range from genetic sequencing to radical life extension therapies.
And maybe it's already working....
I mean just look at the guy 👀
You might not be a fan, but you gotta' admit the guy is stunning.
Most of the tech startups started as stolen dreams themselves.
Whether it was Apple copying Xerox or Microsoft copying Apple.
Anyway, let's leave that for another thread...
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