Elon Musk has been competition and nothing less than his friend the technologist Larry Ellison, who has destroyed the South African magnate this Wednesday as the richest man in the world. A total of eight billion dollars separate Ellison and Musk, according to Bloomberg’s list. This new position comes after your company Oracle Corporation got more than 100,000 million dollars in the stock market for the optimistic forecasts of the software company in its artificial intelligence agreements with Openai, Meta, Nvidia and XAI of Musk.

Larry J. Ellison (1944) has become a Supermillonario thanks to his actions in Oraclea software company, of which it has approximately 40%, and of which it is president, director of Technology and Co -founder, although it resigned from CEO de Oracle in 2014 after 37 years. Ellison also has 50% of the media giant Paramount Skydance, which formed after the fusion of Paramount and Skydance of almost 28 billion dollars in August 2025.

Ellison has not had an easy life, especially during his early years, at nine months he contracted pneumonia and his mother, 19, who could not take care of him, decided to deliver it to his uncles in Chicago to raise him. Until 12 years he did not know that he was adopted and since then his relationship with his father changed in a drastic way. In his adolescence he showed a great interest in mathematics and sciencesyears later during his time at the University of Illinois, he was appointed best student of the year.

CONTRACT WITH THE CIA

After the death of his adoptive mother, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, but left studies after the first semesterhis adoptive father was convinced that he would never have a job of good benefit given his academic surroundings. However, what this parent did not know is that Ellison already knew the basic computer programming procedures, this ability led him to go to California, where he worked on various jobs to save money.

During his years in California came to work as a programmer at AMDAHL Corporation participating in the creation of the first Mainframe system compatible with IBM. In 1977, together with his two colleagues from this company, Robert Miner and Ed Oates, they founded their own company called Software Development Labs, from the beginning the technologist was its executive director. He and his partners got a two -year contract for the CIA to develop a database management systemHowever, they finished the work a year earlier than expected and took advantage of that time to apply it to another data system. Software Development Labs had only eight employees in 1980 and their income was less than one million dollars. The following year, IBM hired Oracle for its Mainframe systems and the company’s sales doubled each year during the next seven.

The success was such that Larrison decided to change the company’s name to Oracle Corporation, on behalf of the best -selling product, because they became a multimillionaire company. Oracle went to the Nasdaq index of the New York Stock Exchange in 1986raising 31.5 million dollars with their initial public offer, but as their income exaggerated soon registered their first losses.

Owner of an island

A longing for outdoor activities, Ellison He suffered serious injuries while practicing surf body and mountain cycling. Despite this, he continued competing with his yacht baptized as Sayonara, and practicing aerial acrobatics in several private jets, including out -of -service combat planes. The Supermillonario is one of the main sponsors of the BMW Oracle Racing and Red Bull Racing team, which has been a significant force in the Copa América competition.

Ellison has main residences in Carbon Beach, Malibu, California, and in Woodsis, California. In 2012, Ellison acquired 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lana’i, the rest is owned by the state of Hawaii, although the price of the transaction was not made public, the figures place the operation at 500 million dollars. Its plans are to make it the first «economically viable and 100% ecological community.»

What is Oracle Corporation for

Oracle It is a company that offers solutions for database management systems that use large companies, banks, and governments. Compete with Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) and Google Cloud offering servers, storage and cloud artificial intelligence services. He has 160,000 workers around the world. It also manufactures high performance servers and systems to handle critical data loads.