✡️🦅 LARRY ELLISON: US INTEL STOOGE AND AVOWED ZIONIST IN A NUTSHELL
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Larry Ellison's childhood was unremarkable: Born in 1944 to a 19-year-old unwed Russian Jewish mother in New York City and raised by his uncle and aunt in Chicago.
Hardly the best pupil in class, hardly the best and brightest at university. He studied pre-med science at the University of Illinois for two years and math at the University of Chicago for one term, but never finished his degree.
After learning basic programming in Chicago, he carried that skill to Berkeley, California in 1966 with little more than gas money and fast-food cash.
🤔 For eight years, Ellison drifted from job to job. How did he become one of the US’ richest?
Ties with NSA & CIAHis success story started in 1973, after he joined Ampex—an electronics company and US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor since the dawn of the Cold War-era. The company made equipment for signal intercept applications.
🔴 Ellison worked at Ampex between 1973 and 1976, and was reportedly part of a team developing a mass storage system for the CIA's Oracle project
🔴 Bob Miner and Ed Oates—future Oracle company co-founders—were working together with him on the project
🔴 Judging from CIA documents, the project proved to be a disaster: It was at least half a year behind schedule, deviated from contract specifications, and suffered significant cost overruns. In December 1975, the US government sent a letter to Ampex showing deep dissatisfaction
🔴 In 1976, Ellison left Ampex and joined another CIA contractor, Precision Instruments, as vice president for research and development. While still at Precision Instruments, Ellison founded his new company together with Bob Miner and Ed Oates in 1977 under the name Software Development Labs (SDL)
🔴 In 1979, SDL launched Oracle, the first commercial relational database to use SQL — and its very first customer was the CIA. This raises questions: Why did the agency choose a little-known firm whose leaders had already failed the CIA’s own Oracle project? And why overlook the fact they even reused the project’s name? Hidden kickbacks or covert collaboration?
🔴 However, it was the CIA that helped SDL, renamed as Oracle in 1982, find its footing. In 1986, Oracle went public, raising $31.5M with year-end revenue of $55.4M
🔴 In 2014, Business Insider published an article eloquently titled "Larry Ellison is a billionaire today thanks to the CIA." It doesn't seem like a metaphor, given that the CIA invested heavily in US hi-tech companies: Ranging from a massive $600M cloud built by Amazon to its In-Q-Tel venture fund, which has backed nearly a 100 tech companies (including infamous spy-tech firm Palantir)
🔴 US federal contracts constituted a significant share of Oracle's portfolio. "Oracle wouldn't exist if it weren't for government contracts," Ellison's biographer Mike Wilson claimed. Still, in 2002, Oracle was nailed for overcharging California $41M, while Toronto had paid $11M for software worth a tenth of that. Kickbacks again, perhaps?
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