To raise the money she needed, she leveraged her family connections. - P27
Ellison might be one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of some $ 25 billion, but he wasn‘t necessarily the ideal role model. In Oracle‘s early years,
he had famously exaggerated his database software‘s capabilities and shipped versions of it crawling with bugs. That‘s not something you could do with amedical device. - P36
Elizabeth‘s administrative assistants would friend employees on Facebook and tell her what they were posting there. One of the assistants kept track of whenemployees arrived and when they left so that Elizabeth knew exactly how many hours everyone put in. - P48
But after he filled his friend in on everything that had happened, the friend asked a question that helped him put the situation in perspective: "Given everythingyou now know about this company, do you really want to own more of it?" When Avie thought about it, the answer was no. - P57
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