Fortune magazine lists companies which are training grounds for CEOs - GE, P&G and others.
They should have given Larry Ellison and Oracle credit. While most Oracle alum have gone to private tech companies, it is an impressive list
Tom Siebel, Siebel (acquired by Oracle)
Gary Bloom, Veritas (merged with Symantec)
Craig Conway, PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle)
Marc Benioff, salesforce.com
Harry You, Bearingpoint
Terry Garnett, several companies and now at Ingres
George Kadifa, Corio (acquired by IBM)
Robert Shaw, ArcSight
Polly Sumner, Alphablox (acquired by IBM)
Nimish Mehta, Stratify (now works for SAP)
Doug Merritt, Icarian (now works for SAP)
and many, many more...
I may not agree with Oracle on many things but they have been an impressive incubator for many in tech...
Author's Note: Fortune may have missed Oracle, but Forbes did not in this March 2005 article. They identified another prominent Oracle alum, Umang Gupta
How about Evan Goldberg and Zach Nelson of NetSuite?
Posted by: Tom Foydel | January 30, 2006 at 09:00 PM
sorry I just noticed I had not responded
good point - and one of the few Larry has personally invested in
I have always thought that if Larry had invested in every of his alum's start ups he would be richer than Bill Gates.
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani | February 12, 2006 at 08:50 AM
and you are not mentionning Mr Liautaud from Business Objects!!!
Posted by: Pascal | April 03, 2006 at 04:44 PM