He is a stranger, but it seems that no one can leave him. Ellison accomplished nothing before he was 32. I went to three universities, didn't get a degree diploma, changed to more than a dozen companies, and my wife left him. When he started his business, it was only $65,438+0,200, but Oracle Bone Inscriptions's sales doubled every year in 65,438+02, becoming the second largest software company in the world. He was also called one of the best and most profitable companies by the media, and he himself became the richest man in Silicon Valley. But only a few people know how long life struggle he experienced during this period. At the age of 32, he had nothing. When he became the richest man in Silicon Valley 20 years later, the evaluation of this business genius was mixed. ?
20 19 March Larry? Ellison ranked seventh in the 20 19 Forbes list of global billionaires with a wealth of $62.5 billion. 20 19, 10, ranked fifth in Forbes' list of the 400 richest people in the United States. ?
Larry? Ellison's road to growth and wealth;
Larry? Ellison 1944 was born in Manhattan. Only when his mother was born out of wedlock 19. Ellison grew up among his uncle's parents and among the lower middle class in Chicago's ghetto. At that time, there was a big gap between the rich and the poor. As a student, Ellison did not show extraordinary qualities and achievements. At school, he was timid and withdrawn, but he paid great attention to dressing up and had a good time. When other children were still being cut by their parents, he asked a professional barber to cut his hair.
Ellison likes to enjoy and squander, is arrogant, and likes to associate with many beautiful women, which directly leads to different opinions on this business wizard.
1966 Ellison left his hometown and went to Berkeley, California to prepare for graduate school, and at the same time began to work to earn money. He studied computer programming, mainly IBM mainframe computers.
1In June, 977, Ellison and the three of them set up a software development and research company with a joint investment of 2000 dollars. Ellison owns 60% of the shares, so much because the company was founded entirely because of Ellison's encouragement. He has a project contract of 400,000 US dollars. He is 32 years old. ?
At that time, most people thought that relational database would not have commercial value because it was too slow to process large-scale data or access data by a large number of users. Relational database is beautiful in theory and easy to use, but its disadvantage is that it is too simple and slow to implement. Ellison thinks this is their opportunity: they decide to develop Oracle, a general commercial database system. Ellison once compared IBM's choice of Microsoft's MS-DOS as the operating system of IBM-PC as "the most serious mistake in the history of world business, worth more than hundreds of billions of dollars." IBM published a paper on R system, and the mistake of not launching relational database products soon may be second only to. The market value of Oracle Bone Inscriptions reached 28 billion in 1996. But also directly threatened Microsoft's leading position. At this time, the competition between Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Microsoft began.