On Today’s entrepreneur profile, we look at Larry Ellison
1). An American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation
2). He is currently listed on Forbes list of billionaires as the #4 richest person in the world as of March 11, 2009.
3). Ellison is the 3rd richest American
4). He is worth an estimated networth of $22.5 billion.
5). He left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the end of his second year, after not taking his final exams because his adoptive mother had just died and then he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he first encountered computer designing.
This is aspiring; I worked in the Bay area for more than 6 years and drove by the Oracle Headquarters building almost daily and wished I could be a fly on the wall listening to his team meetings. I also worked with some of Oracles products and they were key and central to the product we were building.
During my time in that area, all sorts of stories would emerge about this complex and dynamic person and I came away convinced that in the balance of fairness, there is a certain quirkiness to some people who have a vision. Especially if some of that vision has been seen to fruition.
I still live in California – SoCal, and now I have a vision to start my own modest little company. The recession is making it hard; even daunting but this object lesson is a very important read for all of us
Im glad you liked it, Larry is very dynamic which i like about him, i also believe he deserves to be where he is, he has worked hard and gone through a lot of difficulties, but overcame them, i wish you the best of luck in starting your own company, the recession doesnt make it any easier for anyone starting up a business, but i also believe that the recession is one of the best times to start up a company, i believe demand has gone down, not because people have no money to spend but because people have fewer options to choose from, so go for it, plan well and i’m sure you will succeed.
yourhiddenpotential: Thank you so much for that reply – it’s incredibly encouraging to hear a third party endorse my efforts – my instincts tell me that this a the hardest yet best time to go for it… and I will… Planning is necessary of course but the reality is that we often have micro failures to learn the necessary lessons to succeed. As so it goes…. I can only wish the best for you as well, in every thing you do, and all that is yours….
Thanks for that and as i said earlier in the post, i do wish you the best of luck.
went to your site; I’m sure I’ll reading about you some more….