Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Oracle

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Oracle sold the first commercial SQL relational database in 1979 and built a sales organisation that Larry Ellison drove on quota and commission. It bought its way into applications with a $10.3 billion hostile takeover of PeopleSoft completed in 2005, then Siebel and BEA, and it now sells cloud infrastructure alongside licences. Investors read Oracle for maintenance economics, where support renewals at very high rates carry most of the profit, and for the 1990 restatement after the company booked licence revenue it had not earned. Every book here is really about Ellison: Matthew Symonds wrote an authorised account with Ellison's own rebuttals in the footnotes, Mike Wilson and Karen Southwick wrote unauthorised ones, and Julian Guthrie covered the America's Cup campaign he financed.

Books 5Recommenders 3People 3
The Difference Between God and Larry EllisonThe Difference Between God and Larry Ellison
T3 The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison
Mike Wilson · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Unauthorised; Ellison tried to block it.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies Behind His Company's Phenomenal Success
T3 The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies Behind His Company's Phenomenal Success
Florence M. Stone · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Slight management-lessons treatment; useful only for the Oracle chronology.

Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished TruEveryone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
T3 Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
Karen Southwick · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hostile counterweight to Symonds's authorised Softwar, published the same year.

Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry EllisSoftwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
T3 Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
Matthew Symonds · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Authorised; Ellison's rebuttals run in footnotes throughout.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Aaron Levie

The Billionaire and the MechanicThe Billionaire and the Mechanic
T3 The Billionaire and the Mechanic
Julian Guthrie · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

His America's Cup campaign; the only book covering the later Ellison.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

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