Ellison, as the first generation of IT people, is still all-powerful. The IOE, led by ORACLE, which he founded, provides data processing services for more than half of the enterprises and governments in the world, and is a veritable IT empire. As the father of ORACLE, he is not a good man in the traditional sense, but people have to admit that he is really a hanging man.
This is very different from the situation in China. Internet tycoons in the United States are all jerks with poor character in the hearts of American people, such as Bill Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Ellison and so on. This is very different from the image of China's Internet bosses in the hearts of ordinary people.
Let's briefly introduce Ellison, who is called the lion.
Different from most IT tycoons, Ellison before college was a diaosi, with no excellent parents, rich family, good education, no leadership, and even no general learning hegemony gene.
He was born in Manhattan, USA in 1944. His mother was a single girls, a Russian Jew at the age of 19. His father disappeared before Ellison was born. Soon after Ellison was born, the girl gave her little Ellison to her brother living in the Chicago ghetto, and then she went to into thin air. It was not until many years later that Ellison developed that she reappeared and recognized her son.
According to Ellison's description, when he was a child, his living environment was very bad. They lived in a humble rental house, and gangs were rampant in the neighborhood, and there were frequent gun battles. At school, Ellison was timid and withdrawn, and his academic performance was particularly poor. The only difference between Ellison and other children was that he especially liked dressing up. When other friends were cut by their parents, he would find a professional barber to cut their hair, which was similar to Liu Bang and Liu Bei's poor life but they liked Chinese clothes and food.
In 1962, at the age of 18, Ellison entered the University of Illinois, but she was rejected by the school as a sophomore because she failed the course too hard. So Ellison went to Northwest University to study, but he never got a college diploma. This is different from Gates, Zuckerberg and Jobs who dropped out of school to start a business. He simply failed to graduate from college because he failed too many courses.
In desperation, he is going to attend another university in San Francisco. In order to support his life and college expenses, he taught himself hundreds of programming books and became a programmer. At that time, the IT industry was just in its infancy. In ten years, he jumped back and forth in more than a dozen companies, which gave him a very deep understanding of this industry.
At this time, Ellison seems to be reborn, and his personality traits begin to show. Although he doesn't have much money in his hand, he will spend money on sports cars and take beautiful sister papers for a ride everywhere. When he was stopped by the police while racing, he calmly began to talk nonsense with the police, saying that he was a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical School and was rushing to the hospital for craniotomy. At that time, the police uncle believed his story and personally drove for him. Not only did he not get a ticket, but he also staged a police and civilian family.
Later, he got married, but after marriage, he never got rid of his extravagant lifestyle and address unknown's habit of bragging about everything. His wife couldn't stand it anymore, so she divorced him soon.
This diaosi life lasted until he was 32 years old. In 1971, a doctor of IBM, Cod, created a new type of database in theory, namely relational database, according to the situation that the American government and enterprises needed to deal with more and more large and complex data at that time, and formed the paper "Relational Data Model of Large-scale Database", and developed the prototype and SQL, a language for accessing data tables. However, IBM gave up the relational database products for a simple reason, because at that time, IBM was one of the suppliers of databases in the American government and enterprise fields, and it was the largest one. If they developed relational databases, the first impact was their own existing products. At that time, they calculated that they only need to maintain the existing products every year, so they have a fixed income. However, developing new products requires a lot of R&D costs and impacts the market share of existing products. After weighing, they gave up this product.
IBM's wrong decision made Ellison seize the opportunity. When Ellison was keenly aware of the commercial value of relational databases, at the age of 32 in 1977, he took on two small partners, Bob Miner and Edward Oates. The three men scraped together $2,111 to set up ORACLE, and Ellison owned 61% of the shares. Then Ellison took his idea and went to the CIA to bluff a 411,111 contract. Many people attributed this contract to Ellison's bluff skills, but I personally think that the intelligence department's demand for data processing is too strong, so they are willing to give Ellison 411,111 dollars to try, because apart from Ellison, they can't find a second company in the market who is willing to help them solve the problem.
From then on, Ellison started his career. Ellison is lucky because he has a great technical bull Bob Miner who can blow him out. Just like Bill Gates has Ron Allen and Jobs has Steve Wozniak.
Ellison took the contract with the CIA and went to the US Navy and NASA to promote it. Because of the endorsement of the central intelligence, Ellison won the big orders from the two companies. So Bob Miner took the team to fill the hole for Ellison at home, and Ellison preached the PPT of ORACLE all over the country, yes, it was PPT. Ellison is very good at PPT. He named his PPT "What's wrong with relational database technology", infinitely magnified the pain points of the existing database, and then boasted how ORACLE solved these pain points, and demonstrated several simple functions on the spot. The effect was so good that a large number of orders came in. In order to sign the contract, Ellison agreed to all the demands put forward by the customer, and the pit grew bigger and bigger.
several big customers, such as the central intelligence agency, only found out when they received the goods that ORACLE was not unusable, but that the function was not far from what they boasted. In order to use relational database to manage their massive and complex data as soon as possible, they had to take the initiative to test ORACLE, find bugs, and keep trying. There are still many customers who often encounter software errors, inability to run and data loss during the trial. When the client came to criticize, Ellison's way of dealing with it was to be a rogue. Finally, the client had to ask ORACLE for help to retrieve the database. This is not the most painful thing. The most painful thing is that when the contract was about to expire, I suddenly received a blank disk from ORACLE. Because the pit dug by Ellison was too big, when the delivery date agreed in the contract came, in order to avoid the customer's prosecution, I sent a blank disk, and then told the customer that I was mistaken, so as to gain some development time for development. Bob Miner took his development brothers and worked hard. In 1986, Oracle Version 5 gradually stabilized, and it was not until 1992 that all the cows that Ellison boasted since 1977 were realized.
after realizing the mistake, IBM also started to catch up. In 1985, it launched its own relational database DB2, but it was too late. At this time, ORACLE dominated the database field.
Is the experience of China's famous entrepreneur Steve Jobs very similar to the first half of Ellison's story, but Steve Jobs forgot that no matter Ellison, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, there is a reliable team of big cows behind them, and all the cows that blew them out fell to the ground. This is the difference.
another feature of Ellison is that he does everything he can to his competitors, and there is no lower limit.
in 1985, Ingres invented distributed query. After Ellison got the news, it took him 11 days to make an advertisement, saying that ORACLE had taken the lead in completing the distributed query function, and Ellison became a pioneer in the industry by bragging.
In order to open up the market, Ellison recruited a large number of the smartest and most arrogant men, and then instilled a wolf culture in them crazily. At that time, Ellison wore a big shark T-shirt with a big mouth printed on it every day and tried his best to draw cakes for his employees. "In 2111, Oracle Bone Inscriptions will become a billion-dollar company, and you bastards are destined to become millionaires." Every day, Ellison's sales team fights for orders like chicken blood, even at the expense of internal competition. If there are five competitors in any business, then three may be from Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In this way, Ellison trampled most of his opponents to death, IBM missed the opportunity, Ingres died, Sybase was dying, and Informix survived.
in the 1991s, ORACLE products have been widely recognized by customers and become the industry standard of relational databases. But Ellison ushered in the most powerful rival in history, that is, Bill Gates. Microsoft launched SQL Server in the 1991s, and Microsoft used the advantages of the operating system to bundle sales. The two companies had the bloodiest competition in the 1991s. Although Ellison attacked Microsoft many times, they all ended in failure, and neither side could help the other.
Ellison wants to "bomb" Microsoft in any public occasion. First, he wants to "fight against Gates on behalf of all mankind". Then he hopes that people will throw away Microsoft's Exchange server and predict that Microsoft will collapse like the Roman Empire. Finally, he brazenly curses "Microsoft is a villain" and "Bill Gates is a virus" and publicly declares that he is going to bomb Microsoft headquarters with missiles. The most outrageous thing is that when Microsoft encountered an antitrust lawsuit, Ellison assisted the US government and sent commercial spies to rummage through Microsoft's garbage dump at his own expense to find evidence that could attack Microsoft. Moreover, Ellison never concealed these behaviors, and he shouted everywhere that he did all these things, which was not only legal but also without regret. "I am very satisfied with everything I did."
Besides his ORACLE business empire, Ellison is most talked about by his reckless but extremely chic life.
He's never punctual for appointments. Even if he's 1 hours late, he'll lose face. The board of directors can come and go whenever they want. The world must revolve around him. He loves capsizing, "stood up" at Oracle OpenWorld just to participate in the America's Cup regatta. He spent billions to build a sailboat. In 2111, Oracle Bone Inscriptions won the first place in the America's Cup regatta, and in 2113, he made a great reversal under the adversity of 1:8. He also bought a disarmed fighter from Italy, and he drove to the Pacific Ocean from time to time to practice air combat.
His favorite thing to do is to give himself a salary, which is worth hundreds of millions. This has also made him occupy the first place in the CEO salary list in the United States for a long time, and finally he came second in 2111, in order to make mark hurd, the co-president who has just been called into Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the first place. In the Forbes rich list in 2116, Ellison's net worth shrank greatly, leaving only $43 billion. He is one of the richest dozens of people in the United States. His latest ranking, in April 2121, Laura ranked seventh in the 2121 Forbes Global Rich List with a wealth of $93 billion.
Holding a huge amount of wealth, he has also taken his extravagance to a new horizon. For example, he bought a cruise ship "Shengyang", which cost 311 million US dollars and was 138 meters long, so big that the dock could not stop.
I bought more than 21 high-priced properties all over the United States and Japan. The most famous super mansion in woodside, California is a fake version of the Japanese Imperial Palace.
He also acted as Murdoch's receiver, and bought Lanai Island, the sixth largest island in Hawaii, for 511 million dollars, and bought Island Airlines by the way for the convenience of going to the island.
After he became rich, he never lacked women. He was surrounded by either supermodels or movie stars. He divorced four times. Now, at the age of 76, he has hooked up with a 25-year-old Ukrainian model and eaten a handful of tender grass.
Eating, drinking and having fun has never affected Ellison's career. He used $7.4 billion to pocket Sun, which used to have a market value of $211 billion, and made JAVA, which shocked the world, a "treasure of the country" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. He used $8.5 billion to "marry" the global middleware giant application infrastructure software company (BEA). In short, Ellison smashed more than $41 billion and bought 5 billion. This once made Oracle Bone Inscriptions the only super power in the industry that can provide products that span the whole interface of cloud computing. Now, the market value of the company has exceeded $181 billion. What Ellison wants to do is to make Oracle Bone Inscriptions dominate the rivers and lakes in the future of cloud computing.
But the years are getting old. Ellison, who has passed seventy years of age, announced on September 9th, 2114, at the age of 71, that he would step down as CEO of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and become executive chairman. Mark Hurd and Safra Catz will be co-CEOs. However, age and tide wait for no man. Ellison, the corporate superman who had to climb out to control Oracle Bone Inscriptions even if he was buried in the grave, finally chose to hand over the CEO and act as CTO at the age of 71.
This is the legendary life of this generation of legendary Ellison. Although he has gradually faded out of the Jianghu, his legend has been circulating in the Jianghu.