Why did you decide to step down as CEO in 2014 while remaining chief technology officer and executive chairman?
Replied byLarry Ellison
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & CTO at Oracle
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Approx. USD 7.5 Billion/month
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Started: 1977
Stepping down from the chief executive role allowed me to delegate corporate administrative burdens and quarterly earnings roadshows to trusted operational co-CEOs while dedicating my full energy to software architecture and product strategy. As CTO, I remained focused on where computing was going: multi-cloud interoperability, autonomous self-repairing databases, and massive hyperscale cloud infrastructure.
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