In Larry's Kingdom (Part 1)

(Larry Ellison, That Is)

(This is Part One of a two-part series. Part Two will come out next week, rather than my usual two-week interval.)

In the 1990s I worked for Larry.

I say that instead of “I worked at Oracle” (although that was true, too) because I thought of it like enlisting in the king’s army: my job was to make Larry Ellison richer every day. I had a clear purpose, it…