If you are still firmly hung in the world multimillionaire ranking, Elon Musk is now followed by Larry Ellison, who has given a clear accelerator in the race. The fortune of the founder of Oracle has increased beyond the $ 300 billion brand according to the Bloomberg index, after climbing more than $ 100 billion in a year.
As of August 19, 2025, Larry Ellison’s fortune was up to $ 302 billion, compared to $ 375 billion for Tesla and the Spacex chief, who saw that his own fortune has been combining more than 57 billion since the beginning of the year. After going beyond Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, two other regular podium clients, Larry Ellison is established today instead of the second richest man in the world.
Most of the 81 -year -old human fortune comes from a participation of around 41% in the American Technology Company Oracle that specializes in software and databases, of which he is the co -surfing, and that he has seen his course increase in almost 50% to Wall Street since the beginning of the year. After almost forty years in the CEO, Larry Ellison resigned from his place in 2014 and has held the position of president and technology director.
Near Donald Trump
Founded in 1977 in Silicon Valley, the firm has specialized since its inception in database management and then operated a revolution in mid -2010 to become an important player in “cloud computing” – remote computer – essential for artificial intelligence. Larry Ellison never hid his immense ambition, claiming, at the end of the 90s, that he was going to make Microsoft obsolete, and then promised more recently to dethrone Amazon in the cloud.
The capricious entrepreneur, raised in a popular district in Chicago after being abandoned at the age of a few months by his mother, is an extraordinary figure in the technological world. Larry Ellison is a long -standing republican supporter and approaches Donald Trump of his first presidential campaign in 2016, to the point of assigning Oracle executives to the transition team before the entrance to the real estate developer of the White House.
As a historical support of Donald Trump, Larry Ellison took a step in front of the other great technological patterns to make a place in the first circle of US president, who had comments worthy of praise towards him, comparable to those Donald Trump used for Elon Musk before the relationship between the two men is determined violently.
Ambitions in AI
The Oracle co -founder was involved in several important archives of Trump’s presidencies. In 2020, Donald Trump resorted to him to find a result in the Tiktok file, giving his blessing to a montage that provides participation in Walmart and Oracle. If the transaction has fallen into the water, Oracle is chosen by the Chinese platform as a cloud cloud supplier in the United States, pressed by Washington. In the spring of 2025, I was again in the ranks for the repurchase of American Tiktok activities.
The billionaire also participates in the giant infrastructure project for artificial intelligence “Stargate”, announced with large fanfare in the White House last January. About $ 500 billion are announced in this project for the construction and management of data centers, which offers an important accelerator in Oracle. The company today weighs less than 5% of the world market, far from the Google, Microsoft and Amazon trio, which controls almost two thirds.
A colorful character, Larry Ellison spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire luxury properties, including a private golf course and a domain inspired by Japanese feudal architecture in California. He also bought almost the entire Hawaiian island in Lanai, the sixth largest island in the American archipelago in El Pacífico, for $ 300 million in 2012.
Source: BFM TV
