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Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 42:52 David Senra And the previous year, Steve actually recruited Larry Ellison to join Nexus board, and he gave them some really good advice, which they follow. 4 times in the scene
How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 40:39 David Senra Rafael Nadal told Larry Ellison something very similar. 2 times in the scene
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra So the book I want to talk to you about today is called Soft War, an intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Simmons. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10 David Senra Ellison is his own harshest and most unrelenting critic. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05 David Senra Another thing, Ellison is naturally contrarian. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:28 David Senra Another thing that he repeats, which I guess won't be a surprise since I already mentioned that he was best friends with Steve Jobs for 25 years, I don't think you could 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 David Senra Larry Ellison is a sprinter, not a grinder. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:02 David Senra Another thing, he watches his costs excessively closely. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 David Senra In one of the conversations that Larry is having with the author, keep in mind, these conversations are having 25 years after Larry started Oracle. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 David Senra Going back to Larry's preference of doing something different than everybody else is doing, the core of his business philosophy, he says, is that you can't get rich by doing the same thing as everyone else. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 David Senra He then repeats the importance of picking a fight and burning the boats. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:36 David Senra And so I used to think this book was kind of like a biography of Larry Ellison. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:41 David Senra He is going to get divorced multiple times. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 David Senra So he actually gets a job, gets promoted. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:45 David Senra And so Larry says, I decided we should use the IBM papers as an architectural blueprint for our new database product. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 David Senra Let's go back to his flair for storytelling, his flair for marketing, his just understanding of humans. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 David Senra Larry hates 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 David Senra So a huge chunk of this book is Larry. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:28 David Senra Now, one of the most glaring contrasts in this book is, you know, you start out Larry's young. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 David Senra So for Ellison, a personal as well as professional disaster was unfolding. 30 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:38 David Senra He talks about another mistake that he makes. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:13 David Senra Larry Ellison could tell a story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:10 David Senra So now this quote of Mark Benioff, who's the founder of Salesforce, used to work for Larry Ellison. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 David Senra And everyone said Larry couldn't be trusted. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:47 David Senra And he's really good at getting attention. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:53 David Senra This is what Larry said. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:02 David Senra And to move to what he thinks is the future. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:47 David Senra And so Larry does something really smart. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:16 David Senra Again, go, go back to what Larry's best friend, Steve Jobs said. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:25 David Senra And so he extends his thinking again. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 David Senra Ellison strongly believes that Oracle is always at its best when it has an enemy to go after. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:55 David Senra And I don't think Ellison could have done anything else. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:08 David Senra One of the things, I already mentioned this before, that I love about Larry is he's unapologetically himself. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:20 David Senra And he gives one of the best pieces of advice, which I'll save for the very end. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:44 David Senra And finally, I just want to share two final ideas, and I think these are two of the most important ideas in the book, and two of the most important ideas that have come out of Larry Ellison's mouth.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 24:23 David Senra And he says that he would pick an enemy and then he would use 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:37 David Senra Larry Ellison shares this belief that you should only focus relentlessly on your most important goal. 5 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra I want to start with a quote by Bill Gates on Bill Gates, and then I want to tell you this excellent Larry Ellison quote on Bill Gates that I found. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 David Senra Goes back to that legendary endurance and focus that Larry Ellison observed in him.
- ▶ 15:02 David Senra Remember what Larry Ellison said about Bill Gates.
This Orphan Built a $116 Billion Empire Without You Noticing
- ▶ 11:27 David Senra Larry Ellison said something very similar.
The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons
- ▶ 1:00:41 David Senra There's a, when I read this section, I thought of, uh, there's this book called Software that is a biography of Larry Ellison's written, you know, two or three decades ago. 2 times in the scene
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 17:25 David Senra This is reminding me, I did a three-part series on Larry Ellison, and one of those books is called Soft War, and 3 times in the scene
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 13:53 David Senra And so when I got to this part, I immediately thought of a story that I read in a biography of Larry Ellison. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 David Senra From that book The Billionaire and the Mechanic, which is about Larry Ellison, it made me think of Larry Ellison again. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:48:13 David Senra If you study, I did this three-part on Larry Ellison, three-part series on Larry Ellison. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:40 David Senra You read about Larry Ellison, and he's one of these people that's like really easy to interface with, because you just, you just know exactly who he is and what's important to him. 4 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 1:33 David Senra People like Larry Ellison and Elon Musk come to mind.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 55:18 David Senra So it pulls things from like Aristotle Onassis, Henry Ford, Mozart, Bernard Arnault, David Ogilvie, Elon Musk, Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, Larry Ellison, and of course, Alexander the Great.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 46:33 David Senra It makes sense if you study, I did this three part on Larry Ellison, three part series on Larry Ellison. 7 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:23:07 David Senra If you study, I did this three part on Larry Ellison, three part series on Larry Ellison. 6 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:42:01 David Senra If you study, I did this three part on Larry Ellison, three part series on Larry Ellison. 6 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:11:30 David Senra If you study, I did this three part on Larry Ellison, three part series on Larry Ellison. 5 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 44:06 David Senra A long time ago, like two or three years ago, probably three years ago, I read this biography of Larry Ellison that's insane. 6 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 33:27 David Senra In fact, when I was reading, um, I read a bunch of biographies on Larry Ellison years ago, and Larry Ellison was best friends with Steve Jobs. 2 times in the scene
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 25:47 David Senra There's this, this is fantastic biography of Larry Ellison called soft war, an intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. 6 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 14:09 David Senra Uh, Larry Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs, nor Bill Gates philanthropic impulses, nor the competitive urge to see how high on the Forbes list he could get.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 37:56 David Senra Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, Edwin Land, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Larry Ellison, Ray Kroc, John Malone, Henry Ford, George Lucas, the Wright brothers.
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 3:35 David Senra Anywhere from Henry Clay Frick, to Edison, to Larry Ellison, to Julio Lobo, which is the last billionaire, uh, in Cuba before Castro took over, to Aristotle Onassis, to Bill Gates, to Andrew Carnegie.
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 50:12 David Senra He said, without missing a beat, I just want to make more money than Larry Ellison, then I'll stop. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 30:37 David Senra Larry Ellison did the exact same thing when Oracle was going through rough times.
Sam Zell's Autobiography
- ▶ 35:16 David Senra I remember I did that three part, um, series on Larry Ellison. 2 times in the scene