Rank #5
Larry Ellison
Net worth $252.3B
Oracle · United States
- Born
- Aug 17, 1944
- Age
- 81
- Source
- Oracle
- Residence
- Woodside, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- In Relationship
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Drop Out, University of Chicago; Drop Out, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Net worth over time
Biography
- Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns roughly 40%.
- Ellison gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm.
- In September 2025, he became the second person ever worth more than $400 billion, thanks to an AI-driven boom in Oracle's stock price.
- In 2012, he bought nearly all of the Hawaii island of Lanai for $300 million.
- Ellison sat on Tesla's board from 2018 to 2022. He owned 45 million split-adjusted shares before stepping down as a director.
- Ellison also owns nearly 50% of media giant Paramount Skydance, which formed after the nearly $28 billion (enterprise value) merger of Paramount and his son David's Skydance in August 2025.
- Ellison never finished college. He started out building databases for the CIA.
- Daughter Megan has financed films such as Zero Dark Thirty and American Hustle; son David produced mainstream movies like The Terminator and Mission: Impossible.
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