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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Oracle comes up
Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 44:12 David Senra Steve announced following the footsteps of Oracle would be the best example.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:22 David Senra And so everybody at the time, their main product, Oracle's main product was a database. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:50 David Senra And he's constantly trying to get Oracle to actually do the work for the customer and then limit the amount of decisions that the customer has to make. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 David Senra And so it says, although he always talked about technology in Oracle with passion and intensity, he didn't have the methodical restlessness that made Bill Gates so formidable and feared. 2 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:46 David Senra That he chose and how this message spread through the media and actually enhanced greatly enhanced not only his individual stature, but the, the, the stature of his company's products and brand.
- ▶ 13:44 David Senra And Oracle, but it does give you some of his life history, because I think it's just impossible to understand anybody, any human being without understanding the collection of experiences and events, and in many cases, tragedies that happen…
- ▶ 17:05 David Senra Oracle almost goes out of business when Ellison is in his forties and he's still, he'll talk about this later on.
- ▶ 18:32 David Senra He was 34 when he started Oracle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 David Senra This was the first in a pattern of apparently high risk decisions I made throughout my life at Oracle, but I only ever picked the highest risk approach when I thought it would increase our chance of winning.
- ▶ 22:24 David Senra The very last thing I would do every evening was stamp a stack of manila envelopes stuffed with a spiral bound oracle introductory manual I had written.
- ▶ 22:56 David Senra So at this time, Oracle is growing really fast. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 David Senra Now, the biggest crisis that Oracle ever has in 1991, they almost go out of business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:43 David Senra So Oracle is going to go public in. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 David Senra His marriage to Barbara had broken up, that's his third wife, and Bob Minor, his closest friend at Oracle, wanted out. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 David Senra He combined arrogance and recklessness to a degree that was very nearly lethal for Oracle, but against that, he built something so inherently resilient and valuable 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:53 David Senra So even when their stock price drops, and even when they're almost running out of cash, this is still in. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:43 David Senra Nip and Steel, which is this Japanese company, had warrants to buy up to 25% of Oracle Japan at a price that gave the value of this subsidiary of four hundred million dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:19 David Senra And this is the feedback that this guy got when asking other people, should I take this job at Oracle? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 David Senra He does not want Oracle positioned relative to them. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:34 David Senra Oracle is going to do the exact, is going to use the exact same idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:05 David Senra He goes through with a fine tooth comb and starts analyzing all of the business processes in Oracle. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:08 David Senra She eventually becomes CEO of Oracle.
- ▶ 46:25 David Senra Oracle had 70 separate HR systems, each with its own database. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 David Senra So I want to go back to this really brilliant idea on how he repositioned Oracle. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:51 David Senra And as the end result, Oracle is now raised. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:28 David Senra He's almost never says the politically correct thing, whether the subject is dating Oracle employees or how he spends his money.
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 21:14 David Senra Oracle, Walmart, you know, these things can compound for long.
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 17:30 David Senra An intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 20:52 David Senra Larry had told Russell a story of when he was working with the Israeli defense forces, reviewing the progress on one of their new Oracle systems.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:49:47 David Senra This arrogant culture had a lot to do with Oracle's success.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 48:08 David Senra This arrogant culture had a lot to do with Oracle's success.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:09:15 David Senra He uses Costco as a, uh, as, as an illustration of this point, Toyota as an illustration of this point, and Oracle, just some of them, but he mentions many more in Poor Charlie's Almanac.
- ▶ 1:24:41 David Senra This arrogant culture had a lot to do with Oracle's success.
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:43:35 David Senra This arrogant culture had a lot to do with Oracle's success.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:13:04 David Senra This arrogant culture had a lot to do with Oracle's success.
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. 2 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.