The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
by Julian Guthrie · 31 Mar 2014 · 428pp · 138,235 words
an assemblage of characters worthy of Dreiser, past the shoals of deceit worthy of Dickens, and coming to rest on the formidable character of billionaire Larry Ellison, who has the will-to-win of his best friend, Steve Jobs, and of a mechanic, who made winning possible. Julian Guthrie writes as if
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about the longest continuously contested trophy in all of sports.” —Bob Fisher, author of An Absorbing Interest: The America’s Cup—A History 1851-2003 “Larry Ellison’s America’s Cup victory was as improbable as it was inevitable. The same is true of his alliance with radiator repairman Norbert Bajurin. In
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taut and fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the colorful personalities, the risky development of astonishing new boats, and the hair-raising racing tactics of Larry Ellison’s long campaign to win the trophy is necessary background reading.” —Derek Lundy, author of Godforsaken Sea: A True Story of Racing the World’s
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Julian Guthrie The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE MECHANIC How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing’s Greatest Race, the America’s Cup, Twice JULIAN GUTHRIE Grove Press New York Copyright © 2013
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, AND BEAUTIFUL, Sayonara sailed toward the Southern Ocean, a stretch of sea that circles Antarctica and is home to the world’s most treacherous waves. Larry Ellison, at the wheel of his eighty-two-foot, twenty-five-ton maxi yacht, was doing over twenty knots downwind. Feeling the dense air on his
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father’s American dream, not his own. 3 The Island of Antigua May 2000 CLAD IN KHAKI SHORTS and a Sayonara T-shirt, a suntanned Larry Ellison sat down at a campfire with friends and fellow sailors, the sun setting on the clear blue waters and white powder sands of English Harbour
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never bar mitzvahed, but he did improve the velocity on his fastball, though not his control. To the St. Francis side of things, this was Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people and a man prone to colorful statements and hyperbole, a man who pilots his own Russian jet fighter
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, in the club’s elegant grillroom overlooking the bay. Taft and members of the board wanted to explain why they were voting against partnering with Larry Ellison. There were those who supported the board’s decision, saying proudly, “The St. Francis is not for sale,” like a mantra, yet others thought they
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into a deal unless he could run the show. Cayard had been dismayed when he heard club members practically bragging that they had turned down Larry Ellison, saying they weren’t about to let some billionaire come in and buy their esteemed club. Commodore Munro had told a local sailing magazine, “Essentially
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lowered the flag and closed the doors. As Norbert sat in his upstairs office at the radiator shop, browsing a sailing magazine, an article about Larry Ellison’s surprising falling-out with the mighty St. Francis caught his eye. It wasn’t the Ellison name that prompted Norbert to read the story
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the idea of a deal with Ellison by a few of the club members, including Ned Barrett and Madeleine. “Oh sure, Norbert, a guy like Larry Ellison is really going to partner with us!” Madeleine said smiling. “I love you, but this idea is crazy.” Dave Haskins, a retired Stanford administrator and
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expected. I’m an ex-cop in the automotive business, he thought. What do I know? One thing that people did know was that should Larry Ellison win the America’s Cup in New Zealand in 2003 the entire Bay Area could share in the big win. The victorious team earns the
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approach. She wanted to understand what her husband was up against, so she picked up the biography The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison. She peppered Norbert with pillow-talk tidbits. “The Oracle Way . . . was simply to win,” Madeleine read aloud. “How that goal was achieved
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our own club!” Norbert smiled and said, “You don’t understand. This is the club’s last chance. We are not on the right path. Larry Ellison is saving this club. There is no more Golden Gate Yacht Club unless this deal happens, and unless it happens now. And of course we
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, it became official: the once moribund Golden Gate Yacht Club was named the official sponsor of Oracle Racing. The Golden Gate Yacht Club had given Larry Ellison precisely what he wanted but couldn’t extract from the St. Francis: control of present and future America’s Cup operations. Oracle would have three
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Air New Zealand. Madeleine forced her attention away from the beanbag heists and looked at her husband. She knew he was anxious about finally meeting Larry Ellison. After the deal between the Golden Gate Yacht Club and Oracle Racing was announced, sailing bloggers wrote that Ellison had “bought” the Golden Gate and
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boating club, and I was just down in Auckland, New Zealand, and things look great. We have a great team, great boats, and we have Larry Ellison!” “I love the Golden Gate Yacht Club,” Larry offered. “It reminds me of the smaller clubs in New Zealand. In New Zealand there are more
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. On the plus side, Dickson was coming back and he would no longer be the most hated guy on the team. That person was now Larry Ellison. At 9:30 a.m. on a cool December morning, Norbert and Madeleine stepped aboard Katana, the most elegant yacht the two had ever seen
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announcement that Swiss challenger Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team, skippered by Russell Coutts, had won the Louis Vuitton Cup finals by defeating the American challenger Larry Ellison’s Oracle BMW Racing, 5–1, “eliminating the United States from the America’s Cup competition and winning the right to challenge Team New Zealand
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, which involved copious amounts of alcohol and little sleep. Norbert spent much of the weekend being ribbed by members who said things like, “I heard Larry Ellison bought the Golden Gate.” Norbert replied drily, “Yeah, sure, and you see me driving a Rolls-Royce?” Then some of the members would come to
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—he had served for two years—yet he had remained the public face of the club and was the liaison between the Golden Gate and Larry Ellison. Anything having to do with the America’s Cup went through him. The men agreed to think about it and draft plans from each side
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cartoon from Puck shows the “American Sportsman” declaring, “If we can not keep both, we would rather lose the Cup than lose you, Sir Thomas.” Larry Ellison at age two. Larry’s adoptive parents, Lillian and Louis Ellison. Larry at twenty-four years old, rock climbing in Yosemite. Larry with his children
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, David and Megan, in 1989. Sayonara during a relatively calm moment in the 1998 Sydney-to-Hobart race. Larry Ellison and Melanie Craft at their wedding in December, 2003. From left: Rep. Tom Lantos with his wife, Annette Tillemann, Steve Jobs, Melanie, Larry, Megan Ellison
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. Gilles Martin-Raget Finally, after two painful and costly losses, Oracle Racing wins the America’s Cup. Top row, from left: Russell Coutts, Jimmy Spithill, Larry Ellison, Thierry Fouchier, John Kostecki (obscured), Ross Halcrow, Joey Newton, Dirk de Ridder; Bottom row, from left: Matteo Plazzi, Matthew Mason, Brad Webb, Simone de Mari
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the 34th America’s Cup. From left: David Ellison, Judge Jimmy Linn, Sandy Ellison, Meir Teper, Nikita Kahn, Larry Ellison, Kim Dubin, Pam Tilton, FBI Agent Jonathan Dubin, Jon Weis. Courtesy of Larry Ellison Jimmy Spithill, Larry Ellison, and Norbert Bajurin celebrate the remarkable victory in 2013. ACEA/Gilles Martin-Raget 18 Valencia, Spain Spring 2007
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, to an obsession. He was incapable of waving the white flag. It was early evening in New Zealand when Jenny Coutts got a call from Larry Ellison’s office, asking to speak with her husband. Jenny explained that Russell had arrived home exhausted from a trip overseas and had gone to bed
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the next morning, Russell sat with their three young children: Michael, six; Natasha, four; and Mathais, two. Jenny, clearing dishes, said, “Oh, by the way, Larry Ellison called last night.” “What?” Russell said, sitting back in his chair. “Why didn’t you have me take the call?” “You were sleeping,” Jenny said
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his home on Tindalls Bay, a former village where the Maori used to fish for sharks, picked up the phone. It was time to call Larry Ellison. The two had a few minutes of banter before getting to the point. Russell told Larry he was in talks with Patrizio Bertelli about Bertelli
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professional match race regatta, he managed to win only two of seven races, prompting a San Francisco television journalist, reveling in his losses, to say, “Larry Ellison is very good at helping his sailing team by writing checks, but he’s not very good at driving the boat.” Larry, who happened to
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screwed it up. After the first day of racing, three drivers had identical four-and-one records: Spithill, Ainslie, and Larry. However, the press noted, “Larry Ellison’s team is the provisional leader thanks to victories against its direct opponents. A great achievement for the only nonprofessional helmsman involved today.” That night
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regatta. At the awards ceremony that evening, when it was announced, “The winner of the Cagliari Cup match racing event is: Oracle Racing—professional driver, Larry Ellison—boat owner, Russell Coutts,” the place went wild with cheers and laughter. When Larry went up to the podium to accept the trophy, he addressed
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be a part of this team.” Coming off the stage Larry was cornered by a reporter who incredulously asked, “Ben Ainslie third, James Spithill second, Larry Ellison first. How do you explain that?” Larry paused, thought for a moment, got a huge grin on his face, and said, “Well—maybe there is
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today, and made some mistakes. But we are very happy to finish the event in second. It was absolutely superb. I am very impressed by Larry Ellison’s performance. He sailed extremely well. What he’s done is amazing.” Early on—during their practice races in San Francisco when Jimmy was beating
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neighbors at the St. Francis Yacht Club. Onstage, the old silver trophy, out of reach for so long, was handed to the new Cup defender, Larry Ellison. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to watch the ceremony. Larry walked over to the microphone and said “Valencia, muchas gracias!” to cheers that
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crew members into the water and Russell flying straight through the sail. The lights came back on and a woman’s voice announced: “And now, Larry Ellison.” Larry, in a black mock turtleneck and caramel-brown suit, walked onstage. Sitting in front row center were Mark Hurd, his newly hired president; Safra
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exhausting process to get this behemoth built. But on this day, there was only pride and a sense of promise. The team, led by owner Larry Ellison, had imagined an extreme version of the America’s Cup, racing close to shore for the first time in the regatta’s 162-year history
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local and national headlines turned scathing: “IS THE AC72 THE BOAT THAT COULD SINK THE AMERICA’S CUP?”; “WHEN DID SAILING GET SO DANGEROUS?”; “WILL LARRY ELLISON’S EGO CAPSIZE THE AMERICA’S CUP?” Critics said Ellison had “overreached with the boats,” something that was “killing a 160-year tradition.” On-the
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Yacht Club.) Author’s Note THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK can be traced back more than a decade, to 2002, when I first learned from Larry Ellison that he was going to form a team to compete for the America’s Cup. What made the story so compelling to me wasn’t
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of going up against Mother Nature, the reminder, as Eugene O’Neill wrote, that “the sea hates a coward.” Acknowledgments FIRST I WANT to thank Larry Ellison for the time he gave me for this story. Over the course of two years, we met regularly, and talked for hours at a sitting
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
, who together gave $15.5 million while also investing in ideologically motivated tech and media projects, such as Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart.4 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison—one of the ten richest people in the world—emerged as a major Trump backer, to the point that he would later participate in a
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.”6 In the years that followed, Page and fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin bought their own islands in the South Pacific and the Caribbean. Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire and longtime government contractor, snapped up 98 percent of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Marc Benioff, Pierre Omidyar, Jeff Bezos, and Mark
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events—failed to materialize. The costs were piling up as billions had to be poured into the money funnel just to keep up. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that the cost of entry for a cutting-edge AI model was at least $100 billion. Some of the VCs felt the coming squeeze
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themselves from their Chinese ownership. TikTok’s leadership and the Trump administration discussed a plan to sell the app to Walmart and billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison, one of Trump’s political benefactors. That effort ultimately ran aground in court. Meanwhile, TikTok sought to fend off future Trump attacks and takeover bids
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roll his shares into the new entity. Other reporting—including those previously mentioned text messages revealing, for instance, a $2 billion commitment from Oracle founder Larry Ellison—helped fill in some of the sources of money.1 But gaps remained. And once Twitter went private that October and Musk set about slashing
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should have been small fry. Yet they bought in—that is, they were allowed to buy in on a deal that Musk told his friend Larry Ellison was so “oversubscribed” that he would have to “reduce or kick out some participants.” (Musk still asked Ellison to double his initial $1 billion offer
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investors were known to qualify: Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, Binance, UAE-based Vy Capital, Sequoia Capital, and CIA contractor Larry Ellison. What did they get? There were other connections between X and Middle Eastern autocracies, some of which had gone unnoticed. 8VC, the venture capital fund
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-riot 4 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-donald-j-trump.html 5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/ chapter 2: thiel and the new alignment 1 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
been slow to trial its digital interactive TV technology. One venture remained a source of hope and it involved an interesting character from Silicon Valley. Larry Ellison was the well-connected founder of Oracle, the database software firm, a sailing fanatic with bouffant brown hair, designer stubble and boxy suits. The Windows
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Boland as Acorn’s finance director that autumn. The young numbers man from the ICL computer group was inspired to join Acorn when he saw Larry Ellison hold aloft a new network computer at a conference in London and boast that it was designed in the UK. As soon as he started
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in one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Silicon Valley that counted Intel’s Gordon Moore, venture capitalist John Doerr and the Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison among its residents. The Internet of Things It was this sumptuous property that Simon Segars pulled up to on 27 June 2016, the latest in
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
like Jordy Levy detected a change in Masa’s behaviour. He mixed with the likes of Bill Gates, GE’s Jack Welch and Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the golf links and was no longer available for a slap-up dinner. ‘He had outgrown us,’ Levy recalled.16 That same month, June
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in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of 1998, they had their first serious conversation under a cherry tree at the Woodside, California, home of Larry Ellison, boss of the Oracle software group and a fellow Japanophile.2 Ellison’s home was in fact more like a village, a compound of intricately
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Kutcher and Demi Moore were among the guests. Over three days, they mixed with Silicon Valley’s richest led by Page, Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison of Oracle, all flying in by private jet. Masa was also present, though he steered clear of the scratch cricket match on the beach and
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
have to do a deal with IBM, or know anyone: they just had to follow the rules. Figures like the young Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and others all started small companies that either built to a software platform (an operating system), or would in time create their own platform. The
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words
was relatively inaccessible, as much of it was tied up in Tesla stock. “Any interest in participating in the Twitter deal?” he asked his friend Larry Ellison, the billionaire CEO of Oracle, who sat on Tesla’s board and owned $1 billion of Tesla stock, on April 20. “Yes, of course,” Ellison
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his stake in Tesla, and approximately $7 billion that he’d secured from investors, including the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and his billionaire friend Larry Ellison. Jack Dorsey also agreed to roll over his 2.4 percent stake in Twitter, saving Musk approximately $1 billion. The rest of the funding came
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the Pixar deal, then clashed with Jobs. LARRY ELLISON. CEO of Oracle and personal friend of Jobs. TONY FADELL. Punky engineer brought to Apple in 2001 to develop the iPod. SCOTT FORSTALL. Chief of
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, because she had given up her career when Reed turned two and she decided she wanted to have more children. In 1995 Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison threw a fortieth-birthday party for Jobs filled with tech stars and moguls. Ellison had become a close friend, and he would often take the
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home to share his new passion. “I can’t tell you the number of versions of Toy Story I saw before it came out,” said Larry Ellison. “It eventually became a form of torture. I’d go over there and see the latest 10% improvement. Steve is obsessed with getting it right
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similar theater in San Francisco, and held his own premiere. Instead of Tom Hanks and Steve Martin, the guests were Silicon Valley celebrities, such as Larry Ellison and Andy Grove. This was clearly Jobs’s show; he, not Lasseter, took the stage to introduce the movie. The dueling premieres highlighted a festering
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deadpanned. Then he signed the mutilated keyboard. During his 1995 Christmas vacation in Kona Village, Hawaii, Jobs went walking along the beach with his friend Larry Ellison, the irrepressible Oracle chairman. They discussed making a takeover bid for Apple and restoring Jobs as its head. Ellison said he could line up $3
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want to buy the whole company and take all the people.” A few weeks later Jobs and his family went to Hawaii for Christmas vacation. Larry Ellison was also there, as he had been the year before. “You know, Larry, I think I’ve found a way for me to get back
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help to do the same for music players, the recording industry’s business model, mobile phones, apps, tablet computers, books, and journalism. He had told Larry Ellison that his return strategy was to sell NeXT to Apple, get appointed to the board, and be there ready when CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison
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a CEO he wouldn’t get one. When I hung up the phone, I thought, I probably just did a really stupid thing. That spring Larry Ellison saw Amelio at a party and introduced him to the technology journalist Gina Smith, who asked how Apple was doing. “You know, Gina, Apple is
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simply different aspects of his Nietzschean attitude that ordinary rules didn’t apply to him. Exit, Pursued by a Bear Jobs had refused to quash Larry Ellison’s takeover talk, and he had secretly sold his shares and been misleading about it. So Amelio finally became convinced that Jobs was gunning for
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accept the resignations, elect Jobs to the board, and empower Woolard and Jobs to find new board members. Jobs’s first recruit was, not surprisingly, Larry Ellison. He said he would be pleased to join, but he hated attending meetings. Jobs said it would be fine if he came to only half
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people to define themselves as anticorporate, creative, innovative rebels simply by the computer they used. “Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry,” Larry Ellison said. “There are cars people are proud to have—Porsche, Ferrari, Prius—because what I drive says something about me. People feel the same way
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Schiller. “That meant design and engineering had to work together.” The initial plan was to build a “network computer,” a concept championed by Oracle’s Larry Ellison, which was an inexpensive terminal without a hard drive that would mainly be used to connect to the Internet and other networks. But Apple’s
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the type of person who could display grace and patience in a commercial airplane or terminal, even before the days of the TSA. Board member Larry Ellison, whose plane Jobs sometimes used (Apple paid $102,000 to Ellison in 1999 for Jobs’s use of it), had no qualms. “Given what he
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seeing the options as they evolved. “I loved to wander over there on my own, just checking it out,” Jobs recalled. Sometimes he made Drexler, Larry Ellison, and other trusted friends come look. “On too many weekends, when he wasn’t making me watch new scenes from Toy Story, he made me
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list. The dozen chosen tech titans included Google’s Eric Schmidt, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Cisco’s John Chambers, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Genentech’s Art Levinson, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings. Jobs’s attention to the details of the dinner extended to the food. Doerr sent him
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Catmull, Ray Cave, Lee Clow, Debi Coleman, Tim Cook, Katie Cotton, Eddy Cue, Andrea Cunningham, John Doerr, Millard Drexler, Jennifer Egan, Al Eisenstat, Michael Eisner, Larry Ellison, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Gerard Errera, Tony Fadell, Jean-Louis Gassée, Bill Gates, Adele Goldberg, Craig Good, Austan Goolsbee, Al Gore, Andy Grove, Bill Hambrecht, Michael
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; Robert Murphy, “John Cooley Looks at Pixar’s Creative Process,” Silicon Prairie News, Oct. 6, 2010. Cut! Interviews with Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ed Catmull, Larry Ellison. Paik, 90; Deutschman, 194–198; “Toy Story: The Inside Buzz,” Entertainment Weekly, Dec. 8, 1995. To Infinity! Interviews with Steve Jobs, Michael Eisner. Janet Maslin
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, “The Next Insanely Great Thing,” Wired, Feb. 1996; Anthony Perkins, “Jobs’ Story,” Red Herring, Jan. 1, 1996. Apple Falling: Interviews with Steve Jobs, John Sculley, Larry Ellison. Sculley, 248, 273; Deutschman, 236; Steve Lohr, “Creating Jobs,” New York Times, Jan. 12, 1997; Amelio, 190 and preface to the hardback edition; Young and
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; Linzmayer, 273–279; Guy Kawasaki, “Steve Jobs to Return as Apple CEO,” Macworld, Nov. 1, 1994. Slouching toward Cupertino: Interviews with Jon Rubinstein, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Avie Tevanian, Fred Anderson, Larry Tesler, Bill Gates, John Lasseter. John Markoff, “Why Apple Sees Next as a Match Made in Heaven,” New York Times
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, 189–201, 238; Carlton, 409; Linzmayer, 277; Deutschman, 240. CHAPTER 24: THE RESTORATION Hovering Backstage: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Avie Tevanian, Jon Rubinstein, Ed Woolard, Larry Ellison, Fred Anderson, email from Gina Smith. Sheff; Brent Schlender, “Something’s Rotten in Cupertino,” Fortune, Mar. 3, 1997; Dan Gillmore, “Apple’s Prospects Better Than
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the Info Highway,” Boston Globe, Aug. 5, 1997. Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Interviews with Ed Woolard, Steve Jobs, Mike Markkula, Steve Wozniak, Fred Anderson, Larry Ellison, Bill Campbell. Privately printed family memoir by Ed Woolard (courtesy of Woolard); Amelio, 247, 261, 267; Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz,” Wired, Sept
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. 16, 2005; Leander Kahney, “How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong,” Wired, Mar. 18, 2008. From iCEO to CEO: Interviews with Ed Woolard, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs. Apple proxy statement, Mar. 12, 2001. CHAPTER 29: APPLE STORES The Customer Experience: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Ron Johnson. Jerry Useem, “America’s
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Best Retailer,” Fortune, Mar. 19, 2007; Gary Allen, “Apple Stores,” ifoAppleStore.com. The Prototype: Interviews with Art Levinson, Ed Woolard, Millard “Mickey” Drexler, Larry Ellison, Ron Johnson, Steve Jobs, Art Levinson. Cliff Edwards, “Sorry, Steve . . . ,” Business Week, May 21, 2001. Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass: Interviews with Ron Johnson, Steve Jobs
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.com, July 19, 2010. Here Comes the Sun: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue, James Vincent. CHAPTER 40: TO INFINITY The iPad 2: Interviews with Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell. Steve Jobs, speech, iPad 2 launch event, Mar. 2, 2011. iCloud: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue. Steve Jobs, keynote address
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
$5.96 billion; those with a degree averaged $3.14 billion. Four of the five richest Americans—Bill Gates, casino owner Sheldon Adelson, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen (whose combined net worth was $110 billion in 2006)—are college dropouts. The fifth, Warren Buffett, has an undergraduate degree
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400 regularly make headlines because of their ostentatious lifestyles. Houses and yachts remain important showpieces, of course, and the competition in both areas is intense: Larry Ellison built a boat that is ninety feet longer than a football field. Few have put on30 a more ostentatious show than list member Ira Rennert
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aren’t alone. Four of the five richest Americans on the 2006 Forbes 400 list—software king Bill Gates, casino impresario Sheldon Adelson, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, whose combined net worth in 2006 came to a staggering $110 billion—are all college dropouts. The only university grad
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invincibility to rivals, and the “myth can be even more powerful than the actual conduct of the firm,” he adds. Take the legendary battles between Larry Ellison of Oracle and Bill Gates of Microsoft as they tussled to make their respective software companies the world’s foremost. As Ellison, paraphrasing Genghis Kahn
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. Looking around, it is difficult to imagine that this town is, in fact, one of the wealthiest in the nation. Although the primary residences of Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs are in nearby Silicon Valley communities, both of which are not more than a twenty-minute drive away, they also maintain estates
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of Apple for just $91,000 and helped Jobs raise additional funds. The don’t-look-back attitude of the West Coast also appealed to Larry Ellison (2006 net worth: $19.5 billion), who was as iconoclastic as Jobs and “the Woz.” In 1966, after dropping out36 of two universities, Ellison showed
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fortune by the end of the year. Even the richest techies took a huge hit: Bill Gates lost $11 billion between 2000 and 2001, and Larry Ellison recorded a net loss of $6.7 billion between 2000 and 2001, over 30 percent of his net worth. “A great many fortunes in these
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on for forty years. There were bodies along the road, but those who managed properly turned out very wealthy.” * * * 1994 from the pages of Forbes Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and daredevil driver, spun out his Acura NSX in front of company headquarters while turning at such a speed that “it took four
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selling his stock when Philip Morris bought the food group. “It’s a pleasant way to lose,” he said. * * * 1996 from the pages of Forbes Larry Ellison of Oracle is buying a supersonic jet fighter: “Maybe I should fire a few Maverick missiles into [Bill Gates’s] living room.” (1996 net worth
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-foot, Scandinavian-inspired compound. Multimillion-dollar homes16 have also invaded small but notably affluent towns in Silicon Valley, such as Woodside, which is home to Larry Ellison, Gordon Moore, and software tycoon Thomas M. Siebel. Few areas of America17 have been so transformed by the Forbes 400 in the past decade, however
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who believed in the good life, once said, “I’m just doing with my money what anybody with this much money would do.” Software tycoon Larry Ellison is as competitive about acquiring the accoutrements of the good life as he is in his corporate life. Ellison has spent years comparing himself to
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. In a world where even islands are a dime a dozen, these floating palaces separate the haves from the have-mores. * * * Masters and Commanders When Larry Ellison sailed into the industrial port of Valencia, Spain, in 2005 to kick off the city’s multiyear America’s Cup preparations, his Rising Sun yacht
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of millions of dollars each year, you pretty much have to be a billionaire to afford one. The Top Ten U.S.-Owned Yachts58 1. Larry Ellison, Rising Sun (452’8”) 2. Paul Allen, Octopus (414’) 3. Leslie Wexner, Limitless (315’8”) 4. Paul Allen, Tatoosh (301’8”) 5. Peter Lewis, Lone
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and housing a team of one hundred or more and accommodating their families in nearby hotels. It’s a costly and occasionally dangerous obsession, as Larry Ellison found out after being caught in a storm during the Sydney-Hobart Race in 1998, during which six men died. Ellison spent $194 million63 on
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2006 Cadillac DTS His license plate reads “THRIFTY.” To show support for beleaguered GM, traded his six-year-old Lincoln Town Car for a Caddy. Larry Ellison #4 2006 Bentley Flying Spur; Bentley Continental GT He also owns a MIG fighter jet and an America’s Cup racing yacht. Paul Allen #5
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new rich is that they will fail to pass on middle-class values to their children. Not for them the over-the-top spending of Larry Ellison or of Bill Koch, who built his son a two-acre playground complete with a dozen jungle gyms. Writer and New York Times columnist David
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, but prenuptials also come with a huge benefit: They can help provide a shield of confidentiality, as such serial divorcés among the Forbes 400 as Larry Ellison and Ronald Perelman have discovered. * * * The marrying kind About half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce. But for the Forbes 400, only 20
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the last 25 years. Interestingly, those who divorce are, on average, richer than those who don’t. The divorce premium in 2006: about $200 million. * * * Larry Ellison was divorced three times by the time he was forty-two. Before marrying third wife, Barbara, a former Oracle employee, he presented her with a
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Arts, education, health care Paul Allen $0.87 $16.0 Microsoft Science education, research Bernard Osher $0.8 $0.9('05) Banking Arts, education, medicine Larry Ellison $0.79 $19.5 Oracle Health research John Kluge $0.75 $9.1 Metromedia Libraries George kaiser $0.72 $8.5 Oil, gas Antipoverty Kirk
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, including Gordon Moore and Thomas Monaghan, are giving at percentages that surpass even such supergivers as Buffett, Soros, and Turner; although others, including Paul Allen, Larry Ellison, and the Walton family have given away 5 percent or less of their wealth. (Keep in mind that Allen, Ellison, and the Waltons are still
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. He believes the fund will achieve its goal within ten years. Now flush with profits from the $11 billion sale of PeopleSoft to Oracle’s Larry Ellison, the Duffields are prepared to give up to $1 billion to make that happen. Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, are also
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of corporate law, University of Pennsylvania, and author, Icarus in the Boardroom (2005); Matthew Symonds, writer, The Economist, and author, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (2004). Unless otherwise noted, quotations in the text from the above sources come from interviews conducted by the editors and writers of the
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www.newacademy.ac.uk/publications/keypublications/documents/nikereport 18. “It’s not sufficient”: Karen Southwick, Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison (New York: Crown Business, 2003), p. 1. 19. These aggressive tactics: Ibid., pp. 3, 76, 86–89, 96, 112. 20. “Ellison, ahead of nearly everyone
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, The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams (1999); Charles Schwab (Forbes 400); John Sobrato (Forbes 400); Matthew Symonds, author, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (2004). Unless otherwise noted, quotations in the text from the above sources come from interviews conducted by the editors and writers of the
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, The Silicon Boys, p. 97. 35. Markkula, who had recently retired: Ibid. 36. In 1966, after dropping out: Matthew Symonds, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 57. 37. “He had to be rich”: Ibid., p. 130. 38. Ellison and his partners: Ibid., p
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its purchase. On July 15, 2010, Bay Area newspapers received a curious press release from California’s richest man. Oracle founder and tycoon bon vivant Larry Ellison made a surprising non-announcement: he wasn’t acquiring the Warriors. It had long been assumed that Ellison was in line to buy the team
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real estate portfolios on earth, to go along with a similarly lavish fleet of superyachts. Even for your average billionaire, entering a bidding war with Larry Ellison was akin to fighting a tank with a bayonet. Conversely, who was Joe Lacob? A successful Kleiner Perkins partner to be sure, but not to
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because he was one of the richest men in the world. He could’ve outbid us, no question.” There is simply no way to beat Larry Ellison in an open auction. It was a contest between two non-billionaires and a billionaire twenty-eight times over. This left only one option for
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did indeed get on that plane and meet with Chris Cohan. Lacob retells, “I said in the meeting with Cohan, ‘I can’t bid against Larry Ellison. We just can’t do that. So can you name a price that you will sell it to me for. Just name the price.’ And
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we’re in at four hundred, which we thought was a lot, and I’m sure Larry [Ellison] did too. And Cohan said, ‘I can’t do that, we have a process, a bidding process, blah, blah, blah.’” It was time for Joe
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as more of a facilitator in this and other proceedings. “I knew that Sal was representing the product, and I knew Joe, and I knew Larry [Ellison] and so I was in touch with them,” Stern says in a phone interview. “I don’t wanna get any further than that.” Stern adds
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we might be the cure for Cohan.” “I sent him a note,” Guber says of the blowback. When recently asked about the events of 2010, Larry Ellison’s representation quickly declined comment. In the aftermath of Lacob buying the team, Lacob alleges that Ellison tried to sabotage the process, beseeching Lacob’s
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of a team, awful for eons, coming full circle. Coming full circle is a nice, Guber-esque sort of narrative. That is, unless you’re Larry Ellison, who was cut out of the loop. When the Warriors were sold, the underdog won. The underdog then oversaw the birth of the ultimate overdog
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with a potential first-round draft pick. Joe Lacob still had to play the game, though. He might have delighted in standing over a vanquished Larry Ellison and beating his chest sans fear of the powerful man’s reprisal, but Ellison was merely worth over $70 billion. He wasn’t an NBA
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smelled like a fruit cocktail in the summer. Nolan Bushnell: I worked for a division of Ampex called Videofile in Santa Clara. Steve Mayer: Coincidently, Larry Ellison and Oracle came out of Ampex, also. Al Alcorn: I was an undergraduate at Cal Berkeley in the work-study program, where you work for
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. Luckily the Apple, because of its education market, kept selling year after year. That’s what propped up the company until Steve Jobs came back. Larry Ellison: We used to go for these long walks in Castle Rock State Park over by the coast. It cost $5 billion to buy Apple in
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restructuring that Gil Amelio was doing. They acquired NeXT as part of that. So I kind of came into Apple as part of the acquisition. Larry Ellison: And then I went on the board. Jon Rubinstein: About seven months later they fired Gil. Fred Anderson was interim CEO for a couple months
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on people’s radars again, because computers at the time were boring beige boxes. Even at Apple in the midnineties we made boring beige boxes. Larry Ellison: Steve Jobs picked the colors of the original iMacs: “Sorry! No beige.” Tom Suiter: And they’re so cool and translucent and it’s like
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your music everywhere.” I don’t think he had thought of “a thousand songs in your pocket” yet, but that was what he was imagining. Larry Ellison: He was obsessive about making an MP3 player easy to use, and affordable, and beautiful… all the things you’d think Sony would do. Tony
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the checklist, and there was something about Sony. “And Sony, yes they are number one, but we are going to beat them up!” Next page… Larry Ellison: Steve had decided, rather brilliantly, “Why should I compete with Microsoft and bang my head up against the wall when I can compete with Sony
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they were. Tony Fadell: And he would just skip around, so it was just this back-and-forth; he was riding the tide of momentum. Larry Ellison: Apple is a software company, Microsoft is a software company, but Sony was a hardware company. You can kill a hardware company, because most hardware
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had in forty years of friendship with Steve was going for walks, frequently from his house to the frozen yogurt place, or the smoothie place. Larry Ellison: We would always go for walks. And the walks just kept on getting shorter, until near the end we’d kind of walk around the
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you.” And he said the same thing. And I give him one last big hug. I had to climb into his bed to do it. Larry Ellison: This is the strongest, most willful person I have ever met, and after seven years the cancer just wore him out. He was just tired
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Emanuel came, but no Obama. Jon Rubinstein: Clinton was there—lots of billionaires, lots of famous people. John Markoff: Joan Baez and George Lucas and Larry Ellison and Bill Gates and John Warnock, and, and, and… John Couch: Everyone was there! There were competitors there. People that Steve had butted heads with
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man / Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.” Mike Slade: And then of course Larry Ellison gave this big eulogy, which was, you know, funny and charming and kind of all about Larry. Larry Ellison: I wanted to talk about my friendship with Steve, what it was like, and a little bit
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hires. After leaving in 2005, he wrote an insightful memoir about his time there: I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59. Larry Ellison was for many years the richest man in Silicon Valley. The fortune was made from a very dull but extremely important company called Oracle. Ellison
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recorded in the notes of Blake Masters, who was in the audience. The Return of the King Larry Ellison’s remarks were made on a special August 2013 episode of CBS This Morning, “An Hour with Larry Ellison,” and in the commencement speech he gave at the University of Southern California in 2016. I
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