From his website: https://markhurd.com/announcement/
The link is missing an 'n' in "announcement". The link as is does work after a minute, though.
Mark Hurd Has Died
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#22> Hurd settled with Fisher, who had once modeled for Playboy magazine, for undisclosed terms. The modeling for Playboy seems like a very gratuitous detail to include and doesn't seem to serve any purpose for the story.
Cause it's easy to get the estimate of a man by the woman they date/marry.
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#23I feel really bad for Hurd and his family. Why work that hard? The 24/7 CEO lifestyle seems like such a waste of time if you end up working it to the day you die. Like, why work that hard? For the family you never see? The vacation home you can visit for 5 days a year? The yacht you leave parked 360 days a year? The job is so demanding and so hard it seems like Mark worked himself to death, literally. He probably cou…
Without knowing the cause of death, I think it's premature to say that he worked himself to death. It was probably some kind of cancer that probably would have happened anyway. The bigger question I think is, if he could do it over again, would he have tried to spend more of his short time on earth with his family and relaxing/enjoying life rather than working? And even that is not so clear cut-- it may well be that what gave him the most satisfaction in life was the feeling of accomplishment from doing an important job well.
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#24Philosophically speaking, poof in an instant all those things that he accomplished didn’t matter when he died. He is at the same place as any random joe who died at his hospital.
Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."
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#25> Hurd settled with Fisher, who had once modeled for Playboy magazine, for undisclosed terms. The modeling for Playboy seems like a very gratuitous detail to include and doesn't seem to serve any purpose for the story.
His relationship with Fisher was not inconsequential: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-hurd-jodie-fisher-hp-20...
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#26> Hurd settled with Fisher, who had once modeled for Playboy magazine, for undisclosed terms. The modeling for Playboy seems like a very gratuitous detail to include and doesn't seem to serve any purpose for the story.
Cause it's easy to get the estimate of a man by the woman they date/marry.
That comment is incredibly demeaning to women
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#27I feel really bad for Hurd and his family. Why work that hard? The 24/7 CEO lifestyle seems like such a waste of time if you end up working it to the day you die. Like, why work that hard? For the family you never see? The vacation home you can visit for 5 days a year? The yacht you leave parked 360 days a year? The job is so demanding and so hard it seems like Mark worked himself to death, literally. He probably cou…
Without knowing the cause of death, I think it's premature to say that he worked himself to death. It was probably some kind of cancer that probably would have happened anyway. The bigger question I think is, if he could do it over again, would he have tried to spend more of his short time on earth with his family and relaxing/enjoying life rather than working? And even that is not so clear cut-- it may well be that…
Maybe. But I blame the work for the death because he only took sick leave a few months back, then suddenly died. That to me says he worked right up until he couldn't anymore. A normal person would be retiring at 65 or so. And while the job may have seemed important, in the grand scheme of things, I don't think it's all that important when compared to family and personal enjoyment. It's not like he worked for a company that regularly saved lives or made a difference in the human experience for anyone. They just sold a database you couldn't ever get off of. And some other stuff they acquired, and also made sure you couldn't get off of. When you get down to it, his life was spent 100% in the pursuit of money, and little else. If it was about changing the world, he'd have worked at a startup.
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#28Philosophically speaking, poof in an instant all those things that he accomplished didn’t matter when he died. He is at the same place as any random joe who died at his hospital.
That's one philosophy a person can have.
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#29Tuesday - Amazon announces it is completely off of Oracle databases
Thursday - Amazon announces support for RDS on VmWare
Friday - Oracle announces its Co-CEO has died
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#30That's really sad. I've always imagined myself dying in my 80s or 90s after seeing grandchildren become adults. At the age of 62, that cuts all of that out...