From $1,200 To $387 Billion

What this video covers

How a small investment can grow into a significant amount, touching on the concept of valuation and growth over time.

Transcript

First, I like to clear up that $2,000 thing, because I put in 1,200. Bob Miner put in 400, and NetApp put in 400, so I didn't put in a full 2,000. Uh and then I and to be serious for a moment, only a short moment. Uh our goal was to get We started with four employees, and our goal was to get to 50 employees. And the goal really was not so much to make a lot of money. I mean I wanted I wanted To me, a lot of money in those days was I wanted to own a house. I wanted to have a nice car, and I wanted to work with interesting people and do interesting things. And I thought if I could control my own environment, have a small consulting company. And Oracle started out as a software consulting company. We worked for Tandem Computer, if anyone remembers those guys. We worked for IBM, that we worked for a lot of uh uh different tech companies in Silicon Valley doing contract programming,

fixed-price contract programming. And we we did pretty well. Actually, and and again, the idea was just to have a a small software contract software company. Uh bunch of Yeah, we thought we were hot shot programmers, and we thought we could make a decent living doing just that. And quite by accident, we built a product. >> When did you leave

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