Larry Ellison!

The person on the other end of the line is Larry Ellison!

Chen Mu held the phone, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

On the other end of the phone is one of the richest people in the world, the richest man in Silicon Valley, and an absolute business bull!

If UA boss Kevin Planck, who has been in contact with Chen Mu before, is a rising star in the American business world and is about to become a real first-line business celebrity.

Larry Ellison, then, is simply one of the few gods in the business world.

Although Stefansky is said to be the manager of one of the most famous professional sports clubs in the United States, his status is definitely high, but ......

How did this guy get involved with a super-rich man like Larry Ellison??!

Chen Mu looked at Stefansky, his eyes were full of surprise, he smiled for a while, the corners of his mouth rose, and he gave the team manager a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart.

Count you cows!

"Then I'm really honored!"

Chen Mu is not a fool, the business bull on the other side of the phone is still waiting, he opened his mouth unhurriedly, and said as calmly as possible: "Iron Man is very good-looking, it is said that you are going to star in the second part?" ”

“…… Ha, your chat style is quite interesting. ”

There was a noticeable hesitation on the other end of the line, followed by Larry Ellison's trademark hearty laugh.

Chen Mu knew that his opening remarks were enough to leave some impression on this super-rich man who has repeatedly entered the top three of the world's richest list.

"I'm so impressed by that news, there aren't a few real super-rich people in the world who will play themselves in a superhero movie, ha!"

Chen Mu was another joke, two men with different occupations, races, and ages soon became acquainted.

Larry Ellison. The name is not as loud as Bill Gates, the world's richest man at one time, not as loud as Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, or even as loud as Warren Buffett, the stock god who is always pressed by him on the rich list.

But anyone who knows a little bit about his life will be hard to forget such a Silicon Valley naughty boy.

Larry Ellison was born in New York in 1944, of Jewish descent, at the time of his birth. His unwed mother was only 19 years old.

Ellison's mother simply could not afford to raise the child, and at a young age, Ellison was sent to Chicago to be raised by his uncle's family.

In Chicago's Jewish Quarter, Ellison, as a member of the lower middle class, has seen too much of the poor and lowly Pepsi. According to the general process, or the plot of most novels, such a teenager should be a genius who has shown superhuman talent since he was a child. And made up his mind to become the richest man in the world, and then easily did it through some gold fingers.

But Ellison didn't.

Since childhood, Ellison has been a withdrawn and timid person, who does not like to communicate with people, is a loner, and has basically no friends. But even in that poor situation, Ellison has already shown a different side, and shows when he gallops through the mall in the future. Two of the most discredited traits:

Playboy, greedy for enjoyment.

Ellison likes to dress up. If you don't have money, you have to dress up. And then chase the girl in your own way, not one, not two, not three...... (Swarthy my Jen!) ), but at the same time with a lot of beautiful girls, is a real playboy.

Ellison's grades were not good. It can even be said that ...... It's worse. When I was a child, I wasn't a crane tail, but I didn't do well. After graduating from high school, Ellison went to the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, but in the end, he didn't even get a diploma.

Don't get me wrong, Ellison wasn't a genius boy who disdained to get a diploma. A bastard genius who just wants to learn what he wants to learn, and then slaps his ass and leaves. It's not because of his upright personality that he had quarrels with teachers and schools, so he was finally punished and expelled from the school.

The reason why Ellison didn't get his diploma is simple:

The grades are too bad.

After graduating from three colleges, Ellison lived a muddy life until he was 32 years old, and he had nothing to do, no money, and a very depressed life.

Even at this moment, Ellison was still spending a lot of money, earning only a few hundred dollars a month, but he spent three thousand dollars to buy a sailboat that had no sustenance.

Such a guy, who would be ridiculed by people in any era and considered to be the dregs of society, was lucky enough to meet a woman, who later became his wife.

Ellison's wife, who majored in Chinese history, did not work in a lucrative job herself. For obvious reasons, Ellison's wife also left him, and when the two divorced, Ellison is said to have said a very famous sentence:

"I'm going to be a millionaire, and you can get whatever you want with me. Now that you're out of the house, I promise you'll regret it for the rest of your life, you son! ”

Then his wife said "oh" and turned away without the slightest hesitation.

Then Ellison began...... Well, he didn't start working hard either, but continued to mess around. Until 1977, Ellison, who had worked as a code farmer, salesman, and marketing specialist, founded his own company with only $1,200 and two friends.

The story from then on, everyone is very clear:

IBM made what Ellison called the "hundreds of billions of dollars" mistake of not paying attention to the new generation of databases. Ellison and his company seized the opportunity to develop a database product that would go on to have a profound impact on the world.

Until now, you and I have often come into contact with Oracle products in our lives. It's just that you and I don't know it, or we don't know it.

The profligate Ellison spends money indiscriminately, and there are countless beautiful women who have had affairs with him. When I was in a good mood, I bought a small island. In order to facilitate his own access to the island, he bought an airline by the way, and specially sent routes to the island he bought.

As for his hobbies...... Oracle Arena, the home arena of the Golden State Warriors, is named after Oracle.

Although Ellison is a business tycoon, his love for the NBA can be regarded as fanatical. Aside from the obvious reason for making money, Ellison is also a huge fan.

Not just basketball, Ellison has a passion for many sports.

For example, sailing - he even swore that he would compete in the America's Cup for Team USA.

For example, fighter jets -- he raised a group of retired fighter pilots in order to let these masters accompany him to drive fighter jets over the Pacific Ocean when he was bored -- yes, that's right, over the islands he bought himself.

There is also the famous Yale University graduation speech incident, Ellison himself is noncommittal, but many people have picked it up, and there is a great possibility of spoofing.

I have to say that rich people are willful......

"Stefansky is a ghost, I rarely boast about it, you know?"

After chatting for a while, Ellison suppressed his smile and said, "I actually didn't have much of an impression of him, when he first called, it was my secretary who told me who the caller was, so I could call out his name." ”

"There are few things in the mall that are real." Chen Mu said with a smile.

"Haha! You're so right! ”

Ellison is a weird person with a somewhat eccentric personality, and Chen Mu's chaotic and straightforward way of chatting seems to be very appreciated by him. Billionaire, no, billionaire laughed, through the phone receiver, Chen Mu could imagine how wonderful Ellison's expression was.

"But I'm going to correct it a little, I can't say that few of the things in the mall are real. In the mall, there is only one thing that is real. Ellison smiled to himself for a while before calming down his emotions and said, "That's the benefit!" ”

"So we will talk on the phone, it must be because of the entanglement of interests?" Chen Mu said.

"Absolutely, pure entanglement of interests, it's troublesome to talk about feelings, I don't like to be troublesome."

Ellison laughed: "Straight to the point, Stefansky and I probably said it, your new nickname is interesting, and it happens to be the same as our company's name, and I want to charge you royalties." ”

"I ......"

Chen Mu was speechless.

"Hahahaha! Just kidding! ”

Ellison laughed, and his tears were about to burst into laughter when he heard the voice, and it took a while to stop laughing and say, "Seriously, I don't take money from you, I have to give you money!" ”

"We at Oracle have done a lot of commercials, but we have never had a spokesperson. Because our products are generally not directly facing first-line customers, it doesn't mean much to be spokesperson. ”

"I know." Chen Mu nodded, and the question Ellison said was exactly what Chen Mu was most worried about when Stefansky came up with this whimsical idea.

A software company that mainly targets companies and even government agencies in various countries has no reason to invite a sports star to be the spokesperson, and it will not have any promotion effect at all!

Regardless of whether Oracle needs to promote it or not, their products already dominate most database software platforms. Even if they need to ask a sports star to dry the hair? Does a company think that your software is also a good one because of the sports star you invite?

This is simply illogical.

Unless......

"We're going to step up our efforts to promote the Chinese market."

This is your chance!

Chen Mu was excited, his eyes lit up.

Endorsement for Oracle?

That's unprecedented!

And Ellison's next sentence did not live up to Chen Mu's expectations.

"You're very well-known in China, and you're more than me anyway, and it sounds unreliable, but it's like Stefansky said......"

Ellison groaned for a while, as if he was a little surprised by his own brain-opening idea, and then continued:

"If you don't try it, how do you know the result?" (To be continued.) )

PS: This year's west is really interesting!