Larry Ellison: Billionaire Samurai Warrior of Silicon Valley
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- Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- BLOOMBERG GAME CHANGERS follows Larry Ellison from his early days in Chicago through the founding of the multi-billion-dollar software company to his rise as the highest paid executive of the last decade with a total compensation of $1.84 billion. (Source: Bloomberg)
Having met a few super-successful entrepreneurs, I can say they do have some similar characteristics. Very few of them were born into wealth; they have an almost-obsessive desire to win and be rich; and they have an endless amount of self-belief.
Many people running successful companies (ie billionaires) are sociopaths.
What do you mean very few of them were born into wealth? Most of them were.
Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Larry Page and many many other billionaires came from rich families.
@@shaiya1115 Elon Musk is also another example and the Koch family , I don’t think Larry Ellison had help like the other tech billionaires you see these days , but it’s definitely true with power , connections and money it’s way easier to be successful
I worked for this company from 1995 to 2001. It was the best time in my professional career.
Than what happen where do you work now
Or are u retired
Eight years later since this video posted. I've always wanted to know more about him...now I do! Thank you! Absolutely Amazing and Much Respect! 💯💎💯
A lot to learn from this dude, only the positives.
maybe the negatives are what make those positives
Might his software be ugly, culture cruel or his personality possessive, we can't deny that boat was pretty smooth.
Now that, i can not disagree with, since im currently about to buy a 25 meter long longtail boat in Thailand, but if i had enough money, i would live on that boat you mention.
@@AjarnSpencer gj
Anyone that has visited the campuses of all the major players in silicon valley recognizes the differences in cultures. Oracle's campus gives off a real corporate vibe, and full of fear. I'd never want to work there and that's after one day on their campus.
That's because they originated from CIA
Ellison is no samurai warrior. He's one of the bandits the samurai were trying to protect the villagers from in Seven Samurai.
Samurai actually had a moral code...
nice one XD
you must be 1 of the villagers then lol
Example of using the visual techniques I teach, and the ability of a great blessing in my life to type this into my cell
Development of technology and marketing of the technology takes a King, Lion to uphold..now, no pansy ass, but the manifesting of the goals.
One of my cousins is a manager at Oracle and I cannot say that I am impressed with the way this man treats his managers. He did not build that company by himself but he sure likes to take all the credit
It's all about equity ownership plus a little press magic. Ellison still owns more than 40% of Oracle to this day which is very impressive even the company has been around for almost half a century.
Who cares
@@hh0686 and worth 300 billion usd
That's the 2nd time IBM failed to see the bigger picture and missed out on an opportunity. lol
They lost the PC wars
IBM also had something called the electronic cash register. NCR bought the IP.
morons were managing it
Bill Gates best them to the punch with windows as the standard OS on all computers
The first was when Microsoft outsmarted them by implanting a contract that would sell each Microsoft kit per 21 dollars in 1986, and eventually bought their royalties back and owned 99 percent of the pc market shares. If IBM figured they could have acquired Microsoft they would have won. The second time is this data storage system
I worked for this company for over six years and they treat people like shite.
All that money and he seems miserable and intense.
Worked there for 2 years...that was enough for me!!!
Nigee Bear he’s so poor all he has is money
I cant work there I'm a dumbass.
I Work at Oracle in Germany and its awesome.
few people on IT likes Oracle anyway
he is the least admired company of all big companies, even IBM has better image.
Larry is an exceptional human being. I really like the saying that even he is six feet under the grave, he can still run Oracle. He is just that obsessive and competitive guys
He is a man with lot of courage to go forward even after failure
i worked for this meglo years a go. he runs oracle with a revolving door. worst company to work for. horrible management.
It is hard to work for such people but business is WAR
A bad management is a cornerstone of a company you dont want to invest in, let alone work for. i feel bad for you.
At times Oracle had an eerie similarity with Computer Associates. The last five or ten years they gradually moving away from that and turning more in a normal company.
War against your own people? ..fascinating ..yet disgusting. @@jeffbezosviralvideos1890
@Peter Lustig
Seriously, it mostly seems like he knew the right people at the right time for the most part. Using others for gain.
I'm guessing this is the inspiration for Gavin Belson
+AJBfc Him and the founders of Google. Also a huge fan of Silicon Valley. The New seasons really good.
I think the inspiration was more so on the founders of google. Silicon valley modeled Hooli's office's after google.
Benjamin Lopez hhh
AJBfc true 😂
I think it probably is a mix
I never understood why I liked Oracle.. Larry and I gave distance but equal attributes... I think I will use this now.. Larry Thanks for letting me know it's truly possible...
Win at all costs
He is also the Ironman 2 villain right ...
No that’s Mickey rourke buddy...
@@wealthy5702 the oracle of goracle what a pleasure nice to see u
wow, never realized his passion with the internet before it really took off. he was 20 years ahead of his time on netbooks. unfortunately the internet wasn't as powerful as it is today to achieve the dream that he had.
Tom Messig I didn’t either. Amazing concepts for the time
A
The internet was powerful just the government held it back from the public.
Rest of the world : The more you fail , the more you learn
Larry : replace fail with win 💥💥💥💥💥
Bro are u from india
@@shadmanali7615 Yes brother . Why though ?
@@vm3699 engineering student?
@@shadmanali7615 Nope bro why ?
Still applicable
He thought he could beat Bill Gates? Bill looked at Oracle and said, "that's cute".
Gates is much more likeable and balanced. On the other hand Gates had a very harmonious upbringing. Ellison seems to have some youth trauma's that helped to drove him to success.
Of course Gates is a criminal psychopath whereas not sure about Ellison.
Roodborst Kalf yup
@@roodborstkalf9664 hard to say what there really like in real life but i think Ellison seems to be honest about how he is and care very little about how people see him gates on the other hands seems more manufactured
@@roodborstkalf9664 "Gates is much more likeable and balanced"
That's only because he spent more on PR. You've likely been reading articles written by a group of journalists who's been hired by his PR team to write nice things about him. The media can be bought let's not forget that.
Also, Gates paved the way and shown to greedy assholes like Jobs and Ellison that you can make it really really big in the IT world if you have the guts to be a greedy asshole.
Before Microsoft, the IT world was much more accessible and laid back. Everything was open source. The early computer nerds became computer nerds because they hated the culture of the big, bad corps like IBM or AT&T(even Jobs, Wozniak and Ellison famously hated them). Early on, Silicon Valley present itself as an alternative to the strict and uncompromising world of giant corporations so young people can make a living without having to be exploited by old, greedy and corrupt CEOs and bankers. Then Microsoft came along and instilled the corrupt and ruthless corporate culture of those big corporations into the IT world for his own success at the expense of other people's career(thousands of them!). Microsoft was also the first company to began practicing hostile acquisition of smaller companies and that led them into trouble back in the late 90s.
But that does not mean they've changed. They're still doing that. They've just gotten better at dodging the law. Every IT product today cost as much as it is today because Microsoft had the rights for almost everything and they just set the price that will benefit themselves at our expenses as regular customer.
Bill Gates is one of the most corrupt Americans in the last 50 years it's hilarious to see someone says he's likeable. If Larry is the samurai warrior of Silicon Valley than Bill is that bloodthirsty, warmongering general from the Imperial Japan era who ordered genocides and ethnic cleansing in Asia then later got his own people nuked by the US thanks to his unwillingness to stop his massacre(which is comparable to how Microsoft got sued by the govt back in the 90s).
"You're adopted, and oh by the way we're having meatloaf for dinner." That would haunt me to insanity, forever.
This man is a BEAST! WOW! Impressed!!
Just the money he spends on plastic surgery alone could bankrupt the average person.
Thats cause the average person has a small drive and an even smaller portfolio of assests
Come on, I can name you 10 people who look like humanoid cats. Larry looks perfectly fine, not overdone, but he's got severe narcissist eyebrows.
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This explains a lot about my experience with them. I never worked there, but we've had the misfortune of being trapped in their technology stack. This is a company that has succeeded essentially by taking its customers hostage (though, admittedly, not on purpose) since the extreme complexity of the systems built on their technology makes it enormously expensive and time consuming to switch vendors. Their database is their only decent product, in my opinion, but I don't think this company has staying power. They're doing fine now, but I bet they'll implode in the next 20 years when the other tech giants will still be alive and well.
I hate oracle and their condition open source software
100%
Blockchain will probably replace them
Larry Ellis management tactics “Search and Destroy”.
If he's so rich, why doesn't he have eyebrows??????
+chaoy22 Deepest comment on the video right here.
+chaoy22 LLOOOLOLOOLOOLOLLOOLL money can't buy love, or eyebrows apparently
chaoy22 does it fucking MATTER?
He sold them to the devil.
Chao22 ,Because his eyebrows are on luxury vacation.
It is going to be such a shame if there was no man like him. Oracle is not just one more but one major game changer, to me, so trying to be like him is not bad at all but can you? I cannot but I appreciate him not after him for being better than me.
Larry Ellison a man with a “”light grasp of ethics”.
I came here because I will be hiring by Oracle, but I'm really impressed with this guy
A lot of respect for this guy!!
Why does it always happen that the intelligent scientific engineer is less successful than the sales guy. Example: Joba and Wozniak ,Ellison and Miner and so on.
Largely because of the way they think. The engineer MUST learn what the sakes guy knows- How to sell his invention. All the greats did it. You are your number 1 salesman.
Law of supply and demand. There are many Miners and Wozniaks. Types like Jobs and Ellison are quiet unique.
Because if you can't get the product out of the door nobody is going to buy it, one of the reason why Edison was more successful than Tesla is because he would go out and sell his stuff while Tesla would be crying alone in his hotel room and fall in love with pigeons.
@@googleinc6033 fall in love with pigeons, wtf? where did u get that from
He started losing his mind as he grew older! Quite interesting stuff. Look it up.
It’s funny he’s one of the wealthiest tech entrepreneurs, but no one talks about him as much as Elon, Bill, Sundar Pichai etc
I think it's because his peers know that unlike Elon(in X.com) or Bill, he didn't do the integral groundwork of his business: which is the programming of their products.
He's a salesman who had the right team of programmers at the right time.
The chrome book was visionary for sure but the better technology for the internet was still decades away.
@@EmVeeBeen Steve jobs wasn't a programmer either
@@EmVeeBeen He was hired by CIA to code.
Sudar is an executive not an entrepreneur.
Elon is greatest entrepreneur of all time
The perfect personality for tomorrow's collaborative sharing communities
This man is psyco
16:43 When he perfectly summs up the idea of a chrome book lol
Let me tell you something: I have a client who is VERY rich. Not nearly rich as this guy of course, but he is a billionaire. He told me something during one of our conversations: "Brother if you have a car, if you own your own house if you are healthy and have your loved ones with you, then you are happy and you should be happy. Money alone NEVER brought me happiness and peace". Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with being rich and I respect this man. But when I look at this guy I can see his nervous, somewhat edgy looking face (or facade). Apparently his wealth is not nearly as successfull as it should be in terms of bringing peace and serenity. Compare him to Bill Gates or Bernard Arnault or Warren Buffett etc. you'll understand what I mean. Best regards to all.
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! cause you can still be broke and not have love and you can still be rich HAVE LOVE!!
PharaohII I agree and I did not say anything that would suggest otherwise. Maybe you can re-read my comment.
Beutifully said
It's NOT about "peace and serenity" because it's NOT about the money. It's about his competitive megalomaniacal ego - which in the practical world he can actually back up.
Bob Boberson Accurate, dead on argument right there. The world nowadays encourages and instills wild, almost predatory competition with no regard for human spirit and life in some terms and it is only natural guys like these with over inflated egos who are too full of themselves almost to the point it is unhealthy have success in business life. There must be competition for better services and products but not aggressive, monopoly aiming competition like the mindset of this guy. As a lawyer I can say it is also legally forbidden.
Wow, a lot of lesson to be learned from this video. You can either love it or hate it but at the end of the day, Larry Ellison is a pace-setter.
Gotta love this guy. He seems insecure at first, seems compensatory, but he pushes like a tiger instead of being bitter.
An amazing story. I didn't know about this. I just starting transitioning from typewriters to computers. I worked with the govt and saw a change coming, I'm glad he made it possible for someone like me to operate since I too wasn't in to formal education.
This guy looks like Mickey Rourke.
as he mentioned being adopted who knows
All thanks to Plastic surgeries.
Dude, the reportage style has really evolved over the past few years. The video doesn't feel like 2014 but more like 2004.
thanks for the great content
>He's the samurai warrior of sillicon valley
Close tab
XD
I watched the whole thing. The samurai reference was unnecessary.
You didn't close the tab. You wrote a comment afterwards.
He's more like the rich megalomaniac of a fancy name for 'quartz in a dip between two mountains in California' industry
What a story, this guy definitely did not accept what life gave him. He fought back. Perfect archetype of Napoleon Hills think and grow rich, however he needs to take inventory on his people skills and develop empathy.
Another awesome video!!!
"Ahead of the Curve". Larry was visionary or just great at applying emerging technologies like he did with IBMs RDB.
JUST LEARN
•Be tenacious, never give up on anything
•Make the customer believe you're going to change their life with your product.
•Can't be successful unless you lie to customers.
•Take no prisoners and do not share the market.
•Crush your competition.
•Be #1 in everything, even amongst your own team.
•Hire a professional to help your company if need be.
•Acquisitions bridges gaps and can make your product better.
•Keep your tenacity in the face of challenges and don't let it stop progress.
•Invest what it takes to innovate, grow, better and win.
•Invest in where you are behind
•Have vision
•See how the world can be and make it that
•With sheer force of will and persuasion,
you can start with just a small stake in a company and build it into one of the biggest companies in the world.
or you could not be a greedy asshole. Money means nothing.
And be an asshole
I love the story of Oracle. very imperfect. very "We'll figure it out as we go along." aka 'reality' to the rest of us trying to get as many people as possible to buy into our crazy ideas
It’s not crazy if fundamental laws of nature allow for it. Read more
It's haunting without a break.
Incredible how his NC idea was so visionary!!!
Oprah calls your product pretty and you still can't sell one. Only one reason for that. It wasn't 144hz.
"The only thing that matters in life is winning." a CEO and a saint!
and a selfish, sociopathic prick
starryian007 i loooove competition!!
An interesting comment. People who generally love competition have low self esteem. They have to keep challenging themselves against others to bolster their flagging egos. People like this therefore turn everything into some sort of competition to stroke their own egos if they win. Sad bastards. My philosophy is live life because before you know it, it will be gone..
starryian007 you have a point, but if you didn't had a rival or competition in business. I can guarantee you, you wouldn't see any quality of the product. Maybe some, but not many.
Yes I agree. The whole basis of capitalism is based on competition. However, it was once said that 'without comparison everything loses it's meaning' I think in that statement is a way forward. If people learned to do things not because it made them more money or more competitive, but because it was done to the best of their ability then we may have a more equal and just society. Some just need to think outside the box.
My salute.
I can't do anything without it.
He's such a cool impressive man, love his attitude :)
I'm glad when he was young he made these mistakes. I personally feel that humble character at a young age goes well. Now Oracle is growing still today in its market without branching out into new markets. Microsoft, not so much.
The best inspiration video for all who believes in working towards achieving goal
It's interesting that Larry Ellison has such a "young" voice, when he looks like a hardcore and formidable tech veteran.
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American billionaire business magnate and investor.
He is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the American computer technology company Oracle Corporation.
As of June 2023, he was listed by Bloomberg Billionaires Index as the fourth-wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated fortune of $135 billion.
Ellison is also known for his 98% ownership stake in Lanai, the sixth-largest island in the Hawaiian Archipelago.
Larry Ellison is the one with a giant ambitions, shrewd, active with strength. He has endless energy,likes endless activities. He is extremely sesitive with a strong revenge heart. He is a top marketing guy, However, he also has a strategic management skills too. He will make sure nobody will be dared to screw him up. He is certainly deserves his success. Wining is his desire. Many people has the same wining desire, but missing the rest of others. May the self successful person from the scratches, must have the characters like him? Each person is different. He was gradually better only after 32. It was pretty hard before 28 though. :)
please go back to your sweatshop. while you were posting that, 3 more of your workers suicided by splattering themselves on your production floor.
SDL, only one meaning for that acronym, Simple Direct media Layer.
+Penguin Design Cross-platform development represent! :)
Genius and The courage to take over what one believes in.
Great video!
Dude looks like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite
😂🤣very true
I was thinking, "The Ghost and Mrs. Mueller"
How much you wanna bet I can throw that football over them mountains?
Jesus, I knew he looked familiar. "If I could just go back to 1982"
@@astralpx Was coming here to type that, lol
This Man Larry really thought he could play ball with Bill Gates
Lmao
I really like people who remind me of subjects that could be standardized or enhanced.
Yes he is losing the Cloud battle every quarter. Oracle is a fantastic database, yet the predatory attitude of this man is killing the product. Instead lashing out at Amazon Larry must focus on gaining popularity among the Developers.
Oracle is not a fantastic DB. Postgres is a fantastic DB.
DB I assume stands for database
@@sebastianblackfyre what else would it stand for?
Oracle has the only autonomous and converged database in the world. It’s truly amazing and beyond anything else in the market
@@coryquinn6094- if you like Oracle, then try Teradata at some stage.
Oracle was always my #1 DBMS, now it is #2.
its always the same story, the visionary and the techie, somehow the visionary always makes more money
Totally untrue. If you are techie, you can be pretty well-off. Reference - Elon. But you cannot run a business without a vision, as you need to find a problem and design a solution you could sell :)
Difference is Elon Musk is both, he has also has a bachelor's degree in economics. He is a businessman, an inventor and a visionary.
People Pay what they see not how they see ! same can be said of actor and writer combo
Sales is the best paying sector look how many billionaires have had careers or jobs in sales prior. You could make the best product ever but if you can’t bring it to market and convince people they need it then it’s worthless.
Larry is like an insecure child in a mans body
Altin Bey You mean like every CEO ever?
@@tylerdrainville1136 HAha socialist snowflake XD
@@altinbey5831 are you sure you’re not the socialist? You brought up the critique, the guy above just said it’s a normal thing.
@@tylerdrainville1136 facts
@@altinbey5831 my guy hes the billionaire ur not lol
Up until 30 mins ago I didn’t know who Larry Ellison was, I was familiar with ORACLE but not Larry. In contrast you can literally ask anybody who comes to their mind when they hear MICROSOFT and it will always be Bill Gates. That’s the difference between Larry-Oracle and Bill-Microsoft. Bill is like a Landmark, a Mount Roushmore who everyones knows about, while Larry is that monument you’ve never heard about which holds history and importance, yet you have to look into it to learn about it!!
LIFE IS TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED 💖 LOVE ALONE CAN CONQUER THE WORLD.
hahaha, I thought this was a clip from Silicon Valley!
Well put goktug and ventende. That's good to keep in mind as we strive for that extra buck. I've often thought I'm just as happy with my little house , car and job as the billionaire. With his high maintenance wife houses and job or jobs. The key is to be content with what you have!
Is it all paid for?
What an ego.
Max Power
That's what makes you rich
It's not even actually ego. Only in the surface it looks that way.
What's really going on is that they've realized the real world is all about self interest even the philanthropic organizations. And politics.
So they're playing the same game because why not.
Most people, the common man, will see it as egotistical. But that's just the way people are programmed to see things.
Not our fault
Time to smell the coffee
@@user-sl6ou3qb9l Nice distillation Jasiel
It’s 80’s leadership style, similar to Trump.
xOr
Depends on the industry
Tech is still like this but it is changing to more softer leadership. Which isn’t bad its just fake. Two-face sugar coating backstabbing with a smile thing.
The fundamentals never change
Herman you know what? I am probably happier than him...
This is a great tutorial on how to own a room before you walk through the door.
Can he buy the 49ers since he will do whatever it takes to win.
Oh boy this comment did not age well.
El Yaultja He might’ve not bought the 49ers but they still won regardless lmao
I was gonna say something mean as a Eagles fan but i feel bad for every cowboys player yall got this chin ☝
I just love greedy sociopaths!
@E W if you look in the mirror you'll find someone who doesn't understand sarcasm.
He is like a big kid, innovator my ass.
Larry Elison acho sua história fantástica. E você um homem muito especial inteligente e bello.amei
Stuart feigin, hilarious how he talks about Larry. Super honest! 😆
Why on earth would anyone in the world need an oracle?!
It's 2020 not 450BC.
@Winston Mcgee - You are not very bright, are you?
I like multiple-choice options and drawing/writing space.
Very nice video 👍
Oracle licensimg cost is way big but its plsql syntax was easy to learn, it was the first dbms i studied at 12th grade before joining for computer science. Core banking system
runs in Oracle Database.
What I dont understand when people talk about dropped school etc. yet become a top notch programmer, ironic isn't it !
He never became a top notch programmer. He hired the programmers. He was a top notch salesman.
I admire his drive to succeed
Because life is "not for running away from so much encouragement in one's life."
"Warrior"? If one were to check his bio, would Ellison have served in Vietnam, or would one find that a college dropout somehow was not drafted?
I agree that the term "Warrior" is misused on Larry Ellison, but just because you were a college dropout (and therefore didn't qualify for 2-S status) didn't guarantee that you would've been drafted in the 2 lotteries for the Vietnam War anymore than other men not in higher education.
8:25 He is selling something which does not exists. Selling dreams 😇
This guy is a total BEAST.
The goat
Wow.......from nothing to a Billionaire........awesome......Never Give Up!
Great guy larry.
He looks like Hans Gruber from first die hard
Hands Grubby more like... :-/
I like her calmness.
I was waiting on Seppuku for 25 minutes ! I need my money back !
Yeah, maybe he should try the 6 feet under thing.
+noxure good one , very funny , and very sharp observation
Brilliance Runs in the Ellison Family!
He is my spirit animal.
love the music
So Ampex was in a sense an early opportunity to acquire the seeds of espionage. My stepfather was a mgr there from late 50's to late 80's. Even Nolan Bushnell was there for a while. in the 70's
Nothing in the vid says Ellison actually *did* anything while at Ampex...
The top-shelf tail he's pulling thanks to his wealth.
To be a Samurai is to be a servant, that's what the term means...Mr. Ellison only serves himself.
1:46: I saw his mega yacht docked in Cape Town a few years ago!