Julian Guthrie's 2013 account of Larry Ellison's obsessive quest to win the America's Cup — told through the partnership between Ellison and Norbert Bajurin, the mechanic who became a key member of the sailing team — as a study of Ellison's competitive drive applied to sailing.
Documents Ellison's competitive obsession in a non-software domain — the same intensity that built Oracle applied to the America's Cup — revealing how his competitive psychology operates independently of the specific domain.
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