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Inside The Mind: How Larry Ellison Built Oracle by Turning Rejection Into Power

The story of Larry Ellison is not the story of a man who rose through approval, acceptance, or validation. It’s the story of someone who was rejected so many times, underestimated so consistently, and dismissed so thoroughly that he built one of the most powerful companies in the world out of pure defiance. And before we go deeper, I want you to understand something that every biography, every colleague, every former employee says in one form or another: Larry Ellison is fueled by rejection like rocket fuel.

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Now, Larry’s story begins in a way that almost predicts the man he would become. He was born to an unwed teenage mother in New York City, handed over to relatives in Chicago, and raised without wealth, privilege, or a sense of belonging. By the time he was a young adult, he had already collected a lifetime supply of the world telling him no. He dropped out of college not once, but twice. He drifted through jobs in tech companies where managers told him he lacked discipline, where co-workers dismissed him as reckless, where supervisors warned him he didn’t “fit in.” And the truth is, they were right—Larry Ellison never fit into anyone’s system. So he built his own.