Big Thinkers - Larry Ellison - CTO And Founder - Oracle - S2EPI - 143

Larry EllisonCTO And Founder, Oracle$145.1B$545M (0.38%)Real Time Net Worthas of 7/11/23#4 in the world today About Larry Ellison Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer, and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%. He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm. Oracle has grown in part through steady acquisitions of software companies: the biggest was $28.3 billion for electronic health records company Cerner in 2021. In 2020, Ellison moved permanently to the Hawaiian island Lanai, which he bought nearly all of in 2012 for $300 million. Ellison sat on Tesla's board from December 2018 to August 2022. He still owns about 15 million shares in the electric carmaker.