Oracle\u2019s Trillion-Dollar Turnaround Larry Ellison Surpasses Elon Musk
\nHere\u2019s how it happened and why Oracle still cut jobs the same week:
\nOracle stock soared 40% in one day (+$300B market cap).
\nWith his 41% stake, Ellison made ~$101B overnight.
\nThe hidden driver: $455B in Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO), +359% YoY \u2192 nearly half a trillion in signed contracts.
\nCloud infra outlook: $18B this year \u2192 $144B in four years (much of it already booked).
\nAnd yet, Oracle announced layoffs across slower or overlapping teams.
\nWhy? Because growth isn\u2019t everywhere. Legacy units shrink while AI + cloud explode. It\u2019s cut-to-reinvest.
\nThink of it this way: Oracle is fixing the plane while it\u2019s flying
\nre-aligning a near-$1T company in mid-air toward the future of AI infrastructure.
\nFrom \u201clegacy software\u201d punchline \u2192 to king of the RPO lock-in.
\nBut the pivot comes with real human costs inside the org.
\nWhat do you think:
\nAre these layoffs smart pruning for the future or a warning sign hidden behind the hype?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oracle\u2019s Trillion-Dollar Turnaround Larry Ellison Surpasses Elon Musk
\nHere\u2019s how it happened and why Oracle still cut jobs the same week:
\nOracle stock soared 40% in one day (+$300B market cap).
\nWith h<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}