Fascinating. Kathleen Wilson-Thompson is a senior manager at a huge American company, still there doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia article about her.
Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
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Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#192Bruce Scott, the co-founder of Oracle says, “I remember Larry very distinctly telling me one time: Bruce, we can’t be successful unless we lie to customers.” And adds: “All the things that you would read in books of somebody being a leader, he wasn’t. But he was tenacious; he would never give up on anything.” [0] Elon stretches the truth constantly. Should be a good fit. [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/larry-e…
Sounds like the opinion of someone who doesn't like Larry Ellison.
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Geez. Okay I didn't realise he was hyper rich. Well, I'm delighted for anyone to want to support electric cars.
It's hard to think about the wealth of extremely wealthy people intuitively. Just for added perspective, he bought an entire Hawai'ian island called Lanai.
And Lanai is not just some some little place (140sq mi). It is about 1/4 the size of Oahu or Kauai [1]. 3% of the island is still own by other people/entities.
[1]https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lanai/@20.7523285,-158.324...
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#194Bruce Scott, the co-founder of Oracle says, “I remember Larry very distinctly telling me one time: Bruce, we can’t be successful unless we lie to customers.” And adds: “All the things that you would read in books of somebody being a leader, he wasn’t. But he was tenacious; he would never give up on anything.” [0] Elon stretches the truth constantly. Should be a good fit. [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/larry-e…
Sounds like the opinion of someone who doesn't like Larry Ellison.
Doesn't make it wrong.
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both Ellison and Musk are vying for the position of “real life Tony Stark”, I will wager in the next year they will have a major falling out.
I always thought Ellison's role is Lex Luthor :-)
Lex Luther’s major quality was his brilliance... I’m not seeing that in Larry. Don’t get me wrong, he’s smart, but not a rare genius.
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#196In my eyes, Larry Ellison on the Tesla BoD just damaged the brand of Tesla by an order of magnitude.
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#197Bruce Scott, the co-founder of Oracle says, “I remember Larry very distinctly telling me one time: Bruce, we can’t be successful unless we lie to customers.” And adds: “All the things that you would read in books of somebody being a leader, he wasn’t. But he was tenacious; he would never give up on anything.” [0] Elon stretches the truth constantly. Should be a good fit. [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/larry-e…
Sounds like the opinion of someone who doesn't like Larry Ellison.
Bruce was employee #4 at Oracle. He knew Ellison extremely well.
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#198The same guy who encouraged Elizabeth Holmes to ignore her engineers in favor of over the top promotion. Also a board member who failed (or chose not) to detect the underlying fraud... Every time I consider closing out my Tesla short position something like this happens and I get more confident that something is awry.
This was my thinking... Ellison spend the early part of Oracle's career overselling, then locking people into a product which they were now stuck with using. It also had the double impact of pricing out honest competitors. One of the BIGGEST things we need to do is STOP punishing honest companies and politicians. In the 2008 financial crisis we BAILED OUT banks who basically gambled. Banks who were honest didn't bene…
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Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like the opinion of someone who doesn't like Larry Ellison.
Doesn't make it wrong.
Whenever I hear those names I personally link immediately Elon Musk to "genuinely enthusiastic & a bit crazy", but in the case of Larry Ellison I get only "dark side"-thoughts... .
Re: Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
#200Fascinating. Kathleen Wilson-Thompson is a senior manager at a huge American company, still there doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia article about her.
Lazlo Bock, who held a similar position at Google (head of HR) doesn’t seem to have had his own Wikipedia page until the publication of his book in 2015 (the coincidental timing suggests either people didn’t take note of him until the book, or his PR people helped get the Wikipedia article going).