Game Changers Flashcards
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Steve Jobs
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Jeff Bezos
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Richard Branson
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Reed Hastings
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Anna Wintour
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Twitter Co-Founders
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Marc Andreessen
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Jay-Z
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Craig Newmark
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Jack Welch
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Larry Ellison
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- Born in Bornx in 1944 (adopted), grew up in Chicago
- Mediocre student, dropped out of college twice
- Had the ability to declare the vision for change that was relevant and compelling for customers
- Saw an idea (relational database) IBM had, but didn’t believe in, & started his company from that idea
- Started Oracle - software
- Characterized as tenacious,
- Raising the bar on aggressive selling - The Oracle Way - Take no prisoners. Anything less than 100% market share is not enough - If you want to compete agains me, prepare to be crushed
- Growing Pains: Over-promised, under delivered; Solution - brought operational discipline; reset culture
- Innovation - Solved the biggest IT problem in Hx - Created a database that virtually all internet transactions occur on
- Acquisitions - $34B for 52 companies, including Sun in 2009; Started M&A trend in tech
- Highest Paid Executive 2000 to 2010 at $1.84B
- “Addicted to winning” 4 marriages
- Hobbies: Samurai, Sailboat Racing $410M America’s Cup back to US
- How did Larry change the game
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