Who is Larry Ellison?

What the team figured out mid-way was how to foil upwind - essentially to be able to lift out of the water even when sailing against the wind, which meant reduced drag and much faster speeds. ETNZ couldn’t adapt because they had designed their boat and strategy around downwind foiling, which was their innovation and what allowed them to jump out to... See more

PM writes: Love me some vertical integration... and synchronicities. The day Anton sent me a draft of this piece, my Readwise surfaced a highlight from Softwar, which I read five years ago, in which Ellison says: “If Detroit ran like Silicon Valley, nobody would sell cars—just parts. Customers would have to figure out which were the ‘best parts’ — ... See more

Rather than competing on features, or cost, or attempting to create more best-of-breed products, or pay ever fatter sales commissions which ate away margins, Ellison chose to tell his customers that they were doing it wrong .5 Software shouldn’t be built to fit business processes, he said, business processes must adapt to software. Vertically integ... See more