Larry Ellison didn't want Apple's assets. He wanted Apple's soul back. By 1997, Apple was a walking corpse. They were 90 days from bankruptcy. The board had ousted Steve Jobs years earlier, and the company was bleeding relevance faster than it was bleeding cash. Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle, watched his best friend get humiliated. So he decided to go to war. Ellison didn't send a "get well soon" card. He prepared a $5 Billion hostile takeover. The plan was simple, but brutal:
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Larry Ellison didn't want Apple's assets. He wanted Apple's soul back. By 1997, Apple was a walking corpse. They were 90 days from bankruptcy. The board had ousted Steve Jobs years earlier, and the company was bleeding relevance faster than it was bleeding cash. Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle, watched his best friend get humiliated. So he decided to go to war. Ellison didn't send a "get well soon" card. He prepared a $5 Billion hostile takeover. The plan was simple, but brutal:
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He was extremely close to Steve Jobs. When Jobs was pushed out of Apple, Ellison tried for years to bring him back — even planning to buy the entire company and give Steve 25% of it. Jobs refused, not wanting Ellison to spend billions fixing Apple’s problems. Ellison’s early life was tough. He was abandoned as a child, moved between homes, and later came across an IBM SQL paper that inspired him to build his own database. With about $1,200, he created the company that eventually became Oracle. H
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He was extremely close to Steve Jobs. When Jobs was pushed out of Apple, Ellison tried for years to bring him back — even planning to buy the entire company and give Steve 25% of it. Jobs refused, not wanting Ellison to spend billions fixing Apple’s problems. Ellison’s early life was tough. He was abandoned as a child, moved between homes, and later came across an IBM SQL paper that inspired him to build his own database. With about $1,200, he created the company that eventually became Oracle. H
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He didn’t just respect Steve Jobs — he compared him to Edison and Picasso. Larry Ellison spoke about his late friend with a mix of admiration and brutal honesty, calling Jobs “irreplaceable.” Ellison reminded everyone that Apple had already run the experiment: Apple with Steve Jobs, and Apple without him. The results, he said, spoke for themselves. When pressed if he was shorting Apple, Ellison laughed — but didn’t back down. “Steve was one of one,” he said. “And without him, Apple will never be
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He didn’t just respect Steve Jobs — he compared him to Edison and Picasso. Larry Ellison spoke about his late friend with a mix of admiration and brutal honesty, calling Jobs “irreplaceable.” Ellison reminded everyone that Apple had already run the experiment: Apple with Steve Jobs, and Apple without him. The results, he said, spoke for themselves. When pressed if he was shorting Apple, Ellison laughed — but didn’t back down. “Steve was one of one,” he said. “And without him, Apple will never be
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Larry Ellison’s career was full of obstacles that shaped his reputation as one of the most resilient entrepreneurs in tech. He grew up in a modest Chicago household, dropped out of college twice, and started Oracle in 1977 with little money and no established backing. In Oracle’s early years, the company nearly went bankrupt in the late 1980s after accounting scandals and aggressive sales tactics left it on the verge of collapse, with the stock price falling more than 80 percent. Ellison also ba
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Multiprenur® on Instagram: "Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison shared a 25-year friendship that began in the late 1980s when Jobs’ escaped peacock wandered onto Ellison’s Woodside property. Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder, became one of Jobs’ closest confidants, joining Apple’s board in 1997 to aid during its near-bankruptcy. In 1995, Ellison plotted to buy Apple outright to reinstall Jobs as CEO, but Jobs opted for a subtler return via NeXT acquisition. Their bond endured through countless walks, which
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