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And how did Larry Ellison give a speech to more than a thousand Yale students at that time?

His speech was very sarcastic and very much in the style of Larry Ellison. His arrogant, arrogant and arrogant character was clearly evident in this speech. ,

Jester remembered that passage very vividly, that's what he said.

...Why do I, Ellison, a dropout, so brazenly spread heresy in the most prestigious university in the United States? Let me tell you why. Because, I, Ellison, the second richest man on the planet because Bill Gates, the richest man on the planet - for now - is a dropout, and you are not. Because Bill Gates, the third richest man on the planet People also drop out, but you don't. Here's another piece of evidence, because Dell, the ninth richest man on the planet --- he's still rising in the rankings, is also a dropout. And you, not.

You are very frustrated, and understandably so. You will need these useful work habits in the future. You will need this 'therapy' in the future. You need them because you did not drop out of school, so you will never become the richest man in the world Oh, sure, you can, maybe, work your way up to No. 10, No. 11, like Steve Ballmer. But, I didn't tell you who he was working for, was he? For the record , he dropped out of graduate school and became enlightened a little late.

There was another part of his speech later on, but Jester couldn’t remember it clearly.

This episode had a very deep impression on him at the time. Of course, Yale, an institution comparable to Harvard in the United States, would not tolerate such heresy, even though they invited it to give a speech to the graduates. But when Larry Ellison only gave half of this speech, maybe not even half of it.

He was outraged by the Yale side. Let the security guard throw it out directly.

However, this half of his speech has been widely circulated and has become something that many teenagers in the second grade of high school regard as the Bible, or a creed.

“Is it feasible to acquire Oracle now?”

Jester wrote this paragraph again on the white paper, but soon he crossed it out. This was indeed not a reliable plan, not to mention that Oracle is no longer what it used to be. Than, you know. When Oracle went public in 1986, their annual revenue soared to $55 million.

In the March IPO of the year they went public, they raised more than $30 million.

By the next year, 1987, their revenue had doubled, reaching $130 million. By 1987, they had become the fourth largest software company in the world. By 1988. That is, last year, according to their financial report, their income in 1988 once again doubled.

Reaching a terrifying US$280 million.

This year their business has expanded again. Although the annual report has not yet been released, it can be expected that revenue will double again. At this time, it wants to acquire Oracle. It is extremely difficult, and it is impossible for Larry Ellison to sell his shares.

What's more, Larry Ellison is no ordinary person.

He is in the Hereafter. Known as a person who is born with the sharpest investor skills, you must know that now he is secretly fighting with Oracle's venture capital, Morgan Stanley, which is a behemoth on Wall Street and even the whole world, although the two sides have not yet separated. There is no winner, but Jester knows that the winner will be decided soon.

The final winner was Larry Ellison.

This fierce man, who dared to trick Xiang even in Damo, and had nothing to do with him, wanted to take advantage of him, and to detect leaks, there was no difference between stealing the flat peach from the flat peach garden.

Unless you are the Monkey King, don't even think about it.

Acquisition next year?

After Jester crossed out the sentence above to acquire Oracle now, he thought for a while and then wrote this sentence at the end. The reason why he said this is because next year, Larry Ellison and Big The battle between Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley will be decided, and the way to decide the winner is that Larry Ellison will cause the entire market value of Oracle to plummet by 80% within the next year.

This is an opportunity.

Jester knows that this opportunity is very difficult. This is almost the only chance to gain enough voice within Oracle in the short time to come. Otherwise...

However, soon, Jester crossed out the words acquisition next year.

Two words were rewritten.

Invest in shares.

Jester felt that he had thought something wrong from the beginning. In fact, if he just wanted to get the most favorable support in the database, there was no need to acquire the other party into his own hands, because Larry Ellison was a very confident person. A very arrogant person, this kind of person will never succumb to others.

He was able to accept Morgan Stanley's venture capital just because he needed the venture capital at the time.

And after Oracle developed and grew, he even dared to trick Damo, what else could he not dare to do? As long as I dare to reach out to Oracle, I am afraid that I will be in a fight to the death with Larry Ellison.

What if it’s just a shareholding or cooperation?

Jester fell into deep thought. Larry Ellison definitely needs allies at this time, because what he plans to deal with now is the largest consortium in the world - JPMorgan Chase!

Thinking of this, Jester looked at the various handwritings that had been messed up by himself, then threw the paper aside, took out another piece of paper, and prepared to continue writing something on it - for Jester Specifically, this is his habit of thinking about problems, and this habit is also extremely useful.

You know, after completely driving Morgan Stanley out of Oracle, in just over a year and less than two years, Larry Ellison restored Oracle's annual revenue to nearly 1.2 billion US dollars. .

This is a very scary number.

Thinking of this, Jester wrote his new self on the blank white paper.

oracle7.

Although Jester is not a database expert, he has heard of this legendary software name in the entire history of Oracle and even the entire history of databases. In 1992, oracle7 The official launch of Oracle has rescued Oracle from the quagmire.

Later generations said that next year's collapse in Oracle's stock price was attributed to Larry Ellison. As for why, it was because Oracle's stock price plummeted very suddenly, just like Oracle's previous businesses all over the world were paralyzed at the same time. It's like I can't get the mission.

This is very inconsistent with normal business development laws.

The second one is that Larry Ellison became the biggest beneficiary after this incident.

If it is true that Larry Ellison is behind all this, then Jester has to admire Larry Ellison's courage. You know, the stock price of a company with good development momentum has plummeted. Going into the abyss is not something ordinary people have the courage to do.

But it is impossible for Morgan Stanley to withdraw its investment from Oracle without sending the stock price into the abyss.

Now there is a very critical question, that is, whether Oracle 7 was developed after Morgan Stanley divested its investment, or whether it was successfully developed before Morgan Stanley divested its investment.

Jester is personally optimistic about the second point.

Waiting for the position to change, if he changes his position with Larry Ellison, if he has nothing to rely on, then he will never dare to do so.

It's a very simple truth. If you don't do this, you will still be a billionaire. If you do, you will probably become a pauper.

This is especially true for Larry Ellison, because his failed first half of life made him extremely rare for hard-earned wealth. He will never tolerate it again. No matter how hard he tried to persuade him, he could not make him The loving wife changes her mind about divorce.

While Jester was thinking, he continued to write the words Age of Empires on the white paper in front of him.

This is the first game he plans to launch on Battle.net.

Now the question arises, should Age of Empires be released at the previously scheduled time according to the original plan? Or are you waiting for the progress of Battle.net establishment?

Of course, at the beginning, it was just a test of Battle.net, and it was impossible to allow all buyers to have the right to join Battle.net. It could only be full invitations, constantly solving problems, and then accumulating experience in full.

This problem is not easy to solve.

In Jester's view, ticket bounce is not a difficult matter.

Sometimes, it is not a bad thing to delay the game for the sake of the quality of the game. For example, Blizzard later. When Blizzard released a new game, players would not be relieved if the game was not delayed.

For example, Blizzard's first delay was related to the setup of Battle.net.

That was before the release of the first game of Diablo. Blizzard originally expected the time to be before Christmas. Battle.net could definitely assume success, but unfortunately, they did not do it, so they had to give up their precious Christmas time. During the holiday sales season, the release date of Diablo will be postponed.

It wasn't until more than a month later, after Blizzard completed their first Battle.net hypothesis, that they pushed Diablo to all players.

This delay was well worth it.

But what about yourself?

The situation faced by my own Age of Empires and Blizzard's Diablo at the time were completely different. (To be continued...)