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Corporate Gossip

Larry Ellison's ABCs: Always Be Colonizing (PLUS a huge announcement!)

Corporate Gossip

Becca Platsky

Society & Culture, Business

5.0590 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Larry Ellison has been weirdly lurking in the background for decades, but then he turned 80 and decided that being the second richest man in the world wasn't enough, he also needed attention! Becca and Robby psychoanalyze baby Larry, visit his failed NOBU lettuce farm in Hawaii, and fall into the family's shiny new money pit. We think this could have all been avoided if Larry never discovered samurai swords... 

TW: mention of suicide, death 

Welcome to the NEW CO-HOST OF CORPORATE GOSSIP Robby Slowik 

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Timestamps: 

(00:00) Introducing ROBBY! 

(05:00) The myth of Oracle & Larry Ellison

(20:00)  I actually think I can fix Larry Ellison!

(30:00) Hi, My name is Larry Ellison, I invented colonization and it's actually not that bad

(44:00) Larry's shiny new money pit (Paramount WBD) 

Links: 

Larry Ellison's Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Is Stepping Down to Spend More Time With His Yachts

Still No. 1, and Doing What He Wants

Larry Ellison Is More Interesting Than Ever at 81

The Son King of Hollywood

Everyone Else Must Fail

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast, a very special announcement. I think one of the biggest

0:05.3

changes we've ever made on the podcast. Adam, why don't you get us started and talk about

0:10.4

over here? So we are going to bring in Robbie Slowick to completely replace me and all facets

0:19.1

of life. What an abrupt announcement. Robbie will be replacing me in all facets of life. What an abrupt announcement.

0:21.6

Robbie will be replacing me in all facets, including the podcast.

0:25.6

He'll be moving in with my wife.

0:27.6

He will be taking over my job.

0:29.6

He will be entering my position in the nuclear family.

0:33.6

So congratulations, Rob.

0:35.6

Thank you. I do have one quick question. What is data analytics?

0:39.8

Yes. Yes, we can go through that in the onboarding process later on. Wonderful.

0:44.9

No, but we do have a new host. Adam's been on this journey with me on this podcast since the beginning.

0:50.1

And truly, I mean, at the time, there was nobody else that I even knew who would want to do this with me. And, you know, every week doing the research, showing up, despite the fact that Adam has a full-time job, which he's unfortunately for me doing really good at and keeps getting more responsibility at his job. And a couple of months, maybe like, I don't know, six or eight months ago, we had this conversation where, you know, I asked.

1:12.6

I was like, are you feeling tapped out?

1:14.1

Because of course, Adam has also has a wedding coming up and there's just a lot going on.

1:18.1

Yeah. So for me, when Rebecca and I started, like she said, we, I looked at this as I was, you know, filling the seat temporarily.

1:26.6

And that was, you know, four years ago.

1:29.2

And, you know, the podcast is slowly grown and gotten a nice little following. And it's kind of

1:35.2

led us to a position where we can pivot kind of quickly and make this something a little different

1:41.3

in the hopes that it grows more. So I was feeling a little burnt out with things that are going on and work and things that are

1:48.4

going on my personal life.

1:50.3

And it was a really good opportunity for Robbie to step in.

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