126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-05-20
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“What he loved was designing and redesigning things to make them more useful and more beautiful.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“"My idea was simple: buy Apple and immediately make Steve CEO.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: focus.
People
“We're, we're people like y- y- people like you're the-- We are people like the ones you grew up around, right?”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“This winds up being a mistake, but Larry doesn't know it's a mistake then, right?”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“"Sometimes Larry would look around his Woodside home, as beautiful and serene and spectacularly landscaped as any place on the planet, or…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
A BIPU connection
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