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Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up

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Oracle were 40B in profit in 2024.

Now they are out raising debt (again) and equity too, to fund DCs and hardware with no proven return.

I cannot comprehend it.

Other than ego, maybe he sees the writing on the wall for his core business? But seeing all these new AI companies being valued at hundreds of billions must have driven Ellison crazy

Correct business moves would have been to get Oracle products in all possible AI outputs... Not sure how that could be done, but still an idea.

Me neither. Isn't that enough? Does the line always have to go up? It really look like stock market and tech companies are classic gamblers. No gain or profit is good enough to just take it and stop.

Unfortunely yes, that is the MBA school, and then when the gamble fails, it is the employees that get shown the door, because company XYZ did not met their targets.

CEO might even get a bonus as payoff for a risky move, from shareholders point of view, go figure this logic.

It's 44 percent down the last 3 months...

stock price, not assets.

How's that tiktok purchase going for you, Larry?

It curried favor, gained him an immense amount of data and I’m suspecting is a source of revenue from various black intelligence projects.

None of that matters if you run out of money to keep the lights on

>Larry Ellison

>Running out of money

You probably don't know much about know the guy, in which case I recommend reading a bit about his business background.

I know enough about mr sailboat lawnmower.

But I also know that people like him or Elon are the most susceptible to losing touch with reality due to being surrounded layers and layers deep by hype. Nothing about being rich prevents him from going all in and reaping financial ruin as a reward.

The thing is, you actually don't know that, you've just decided it's true.

He has nearly limitless money and is positioning to continue like that on the foreseeable future by using others money to invest

Is he running out of money though?

Got him access to his pick of the kids’ menu, didn’t it?

Greatest investment of his life, probably. A couple of billion and immense leverage with Trump. (they were many investors)

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