Paradise 2.0

摘要

When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lana'i in June 2012(for a price estimated at $300 million to $500 million), shock waves rippled through the sleepy, picturesque backwater. The island's 3,100 residents were long inured to the semifeudal ownership structure-since the 1860s there had been a succession of lords of the manor, including pineapple king James Dole and, in 1985, after taking over Dole's then floundering parent company, billionaire David Murdock. But Ellison came in with even deeper pockets and bigger plans, guaranteed to change the face of the island, a place that proudly has no traffic lights, very few paved roads in 141 square miles and, as one resident describes it, "not just a slow pace-no pace at all."