Larry Ellison

Source of wealth: Oracle

Net Worth

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Biography

Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns roughly 40%.

Ellison gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm.

In September 2025, he became the second person ever worth more than $400 billion, thanks to an AI-driven boom in Oracle's stock price.

In 2012, he bought nearly all of the Hawaii island of Lanai for $300 million.

Ellison sat on Tesla's board from 2018 to 2022. He owned 45 million split-adjusted shares before stepping down as a director.

Ellison also owns nearly 50% of media giant Paramount Skydance, which formed after the nearly $28 billion (enterprise value) merger of Paramount and his son David's Skydance in August 2025.

Perspective on their fortune

Gold

Everyday luxury

A Larry Ellison's fortune is equivalent to 1646 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.

A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.

Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3

Larry Ellison could buy 438,935,030 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!

And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 78 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Larry Ellison will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.

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While billions of people struggle to access basic healthcare, education, and research, a single individual could fund entire national systems for centuries.

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Health

The price of life

Let's compare Larry Ellison's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country

Larry Ellison could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 109.9 years.

But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country

At the other extreme, Larry Ellison could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 48.6 years

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Education

Buying the future

Lowest education spending

Larry Ellison could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 71.8 years.

Highest education spending

But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Larry Ellison could pay for it in full for 97.7 years.

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Research

The monopoly of progress

Lowest research spending

Larry Ellison could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 411.1 years.

Highest research spending

But even if we compare the total wealth of Larry Ellison with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 9.2 years.