Larry’s investment strategy
There’s clearly no love lost between Oracle and SalesForce (for more see “esofto’s long and well written piece”:http://brucedaley.typepad.com/esofto/2006/02/database_proble.html) – but this ranks as one of my “Larry Quotes of the Decade”. From Larry to reporters at Oracle OpenWorld in September:
bq. “We want to go after Salesforce.com as much as we can. I’m an investor in Salesforce, and I want to see my investment go to zero.”
For those other Larry lovers out there, “this piece”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/31/MNG62H06991.DTL from the SF Gate shows another side to his financial thinking.
Yeah, that’s cute, but you’ll never hear him say that for NetSuite, where he owns 50+%