Larry Ellison
Woodside, California
Drop Out, University of Chicago | Drop Out, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
United States
Oracle
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software, Self Made
$70,600,000,000
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#7 Billionaires 2019
#5 Forbes 400 2018
Larry Ellison cofounded software firm Oracle in 1977 to tap into the growing need for customer relationship management databases.He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 but still serves as chairman of the board and chief technology officer.As part of Oracle's push into cloud computing, it acquired cloud-software firm Netsuite for $9.3 billion in 2016.In May 2016, Ellison pledged $200 million to the University of Southern California for a cancer treatment center.In March 2018, Ellison launched a wellness startup called Sensei, whose first project is hydroponic farming on the Hawaiian island Lanai.Ellison joined Tesla's board in December 2018, after purchasing 3 million Tesla shares earlier that year.
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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