The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Larry Ellison is The Disruptor by instinct, treating competition as existential combat rather than routine rivalry. He built Oracle into a global enterprise software giant on relentless aggression, famously targeting IBM and Microsoft directly, and pursued audacious acquisitions including PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, and Cerner, often against fierce resistance.
“If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.”
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“Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset [if] somebody looks in their database.”
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“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?”
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