Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two ...

41-year-old David Ellison founded Skydance back in 2006 with some help from his father Larry Ellison, the Oracle cofounder who's worth $154 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

I'm also a longtime critic of certain big companies, Larry Ellison's Oracle among them. So imagine my dismay when I heard this: "The masterplan is “a place for brilliant people to come together”.