Why do you maintain approximately forty percent equity ownership of Oracle rather than diversifying?
Replied byLarry Ellison
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & CTO at Oracle
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Approx. USD 7.5 Billion/month
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Started: 1977
Maintaining substantial equity ownership grants me total strategic alignment with the company's long-term survival and prosperity. It insulates Oracle from short-sighted activist investor pressures, enabling us to make multi-billion-dollar contrarian infrastructure bets that pay off over ten or twenty-year horizons rather than sacrificing our competitive edge to satisfy immediate Wall Street consensus.
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