#404 How Larry Ellison Thinks

So the book I want to talk about today is called Soft War, an intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. By Matthew Simmons. The book is about twenty five years old. The first time I read this book was about five to six years ago. And Think if you're gonna read a biography or a book on Larry Ellison. This is the fur very first one you should read because The author had access to Larry Ellison.

And traveled extensively. with him for two years. And they have These unbelievably Just brutally frank conversations in the book. And so I wanted to read the book and look at it through the lens of like, can I get inside of the mind of Larry Ellison?

Ellison has had a very unique set of life circumstances. He founded Oracle all the way back in nineteen seventy six. He's one of the wealthy fast forward, you know, fifty something years later. He's still one of the wealthiest people in the world. And so I wanted to understand how he thought. Now

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