Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Fierce Competitor

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“Larry Ellison, the famously combative Oracle CEO and one of the world’s richest self-made men, once told a TV interviewer that “my personality didn’t allow me to quit while I’m losing.” Then he added, “My personality doesn’t allow me to quit while I’m winning.” He concluded, “I just can’t quit.” Ellison isn’t quitting, he and other Oracle executives insisted this week, after the 70-year-old company founder announced he’s handing off the CEO title and taking the less hands-on job of executive chairman. But the transition marks a changing of the guard: Ellison, a swashbuckling figure in both his business and personal life, was one of Silicon Valley’s longest-reigning CEOs and the last in a generation of founders — including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Apple’s Steve Jobs and Sun Microsystems’ Scott McNealy — who built the infrastructure of modern computing and steered the leading tech companies in decades past. Today’s most prominent tech CEOs tend to be heads of newer companies, such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Larry Page, that deliver online software or services on top of that infrastructure. “