“Larry Ellison is a Genius!”
At IPO, I think Larry Ellison owned something like 23% of Oracle. Typically, that goes down over time. He now owns 41% of Oracle.What's he done. Every year, he's run that business superbly. It's got 43% operating margins and he's used that cash to buy back shares.He hasn't sold any. So, his ownership has just gone up over time. Two things happened this year.One is the stock really popped 40% and he got a lot of cloud credit. But the interesting thing is this is the year he actually abandoned the buyback str ...