Larry Ellison
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Serving as Oracle's CEO for 37 years until stepping into the Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer roles in 2014, Ellison built an enterprise software powerhouse through relentless sales execution and multi-billion-dollar roll-ups (PeopleSoft, Siebel, Sun Microsystems, NetSuite, and Cerner). Beginning in 2024–2025, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) became a central compute backbone for generative AI training—co-anchoring the White House-backed $100B+ Stargate data-center venture with OpenAI and SoftBank. That AI surge briefly vaulted Ellison past Elon Musk as the world's richest person (~$393B–$401B) on September 10, 2025. Even as heavy AI capital expenditures and debt loads dragged Oracle shares down more than 50% from their autumn 2025 peak across 2026, the 82-year-old billionaire leveraged his fortune and political alliance with President Donald Trump to assemble an unprecedented U.S. media empire: anchoring the consortium that took majority U.S. control of TikTok in January 2026 and personally backstopping over $40 billion to propel his son David Ellison's Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for ~$110 billion in October 2026.
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#5
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#5.3
across 3 lists
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Larry Ellison is ranked #5 on "Top 10 Richest People in the World 2026" — its best placement across 3 lists on top10grid.com.
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Larry Ellison appears in 3 lists on top10grid.com, spanning categories including BUSINESS, FINANCE.
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Larry Ellison appears most frequently in the FINANCE category, most notably in "Top 10 Most Powerful Billionaires in the World 2025".
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Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American businessman. He co-founded the technology company Oracle Corporation, serving as its CEO from 1977...
Born
1881-10-26
Birthplace
Wrocław
Death Date
1970-12-26
Education
Leipzig University
Nationality
Germany
Occupations
translator, director, university teacher
Parents
Biological: Florence Spellman (mother) and an unnamed Italian-American US Army Air Corps pilot; Adoptive: Lillian Spellman Ellison and Louis Ellison
Full Name
Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Citizenship
United States
Early Career
Ampex Corporation (Programmer, 1973–1976); Precision Instruments / Omex (VP of R&D, 1976–1977)
Date Of Birth
1944-08-17
