Larry Ellison  is an American businessman

Larry Ellison is an American businessman

entrepreneur who co-founded software company Oracle Corporation

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He was Oracle's chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014

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is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman

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As of November 2023, he was listed by Bloomberg Billionaires Index

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as the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated fortune of $130 billion

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Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98% of Lānaʻi, the sixth-largest island in the Hawaiian Islands

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While working at Ampex in the early 1970s, he became influenced by Edgar F. Codd's research on relational database design for IBM

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This white paper led in 1977 to the formation of the company which later became Oracle

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Oracle became a successful database vendor to mid- and low-range systems

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later competing with Sybase (created 1984) and Microsoft SQL Server (a port of Sybase created in 1989)

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which led to Ellison being listed by Forbes as one of the richest people in the world.

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The European Union approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems on January 21, 2010

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In 2017, Forbes estimated that Ellison was the 4th richest person in tech

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As of 2022, Ellison owns 42.9 percent of the shares of Oracle Corporation, and as of June 2023, 1.4 percent of the shares of Tesla

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