Larry Ellison Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Wife, Spouse, CTO OF Oracle Corporation, Forbes and Net Worth.

Larry Ellison Biography and Wiki

Larry Ellison (born Lawrence Joseph Ellison) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist who is a co-founder, executive chairman, and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle Corporation. Larry was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the sixth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $69.1 billion, increased from $54.5 billion in June 2018.

Larry Ellison Age and Birthday

Ellison is 76 years old as of 2020, he was born on 17 August 1944, in New York City, New York, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 17 August every year and his birth sign is Leo.

Larry Ellison Height and Weight

Ellison stands at a height of 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 meters) and Weighs 67 kg. (147 lbs). He also appears to be quite tall in stature in his photos.

Larry Ellison Education

Ellison studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the University of Chicago without graduating before moving to California in 1966. He left the University of Illinois after his second year, not taking his final exams because his adoptive mother had just passed away.

It was at the University of Chicago where he first encountered computer design after being in attendance for one term. While working at Ampex in the early 1970s, he became influenced by Edgar F. Codd’s research on relational database design, which led to the formation of what became Oracle in 1977.

It became a successful database vendor to mid- and low-range systems, competing with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. This influenced his inclusion on the list of the richest men in the world.

He has since signed Bill Gatesand Warren Buffett‘s The Giving Pledge and given up to 1% of his wealth to charity.

He has also had success in yachting, through Oracle Team USA aside from his work at Oracle. Ellison is also a licensed aircraft pilot who owns two military jets.

Larry Ellison Family

The Oracle co-founder was born to his Jewish mother, Florence Spellman, who was unwed, and an Italian American father, Louis Ellison who worked as a United States Army Air Corps pilot.

As a baby, Ellison contracted pneumonia at nine months of age leading to his mother’s decision to give him up for adoption to her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Lillian Spellman Ellison, and Luis Ellison.

Ellison met his biological mother again when he was 48. He says his adoptive mother was warm and loving as compared to his harsh, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father.

He adopted the name Ellison honor his point of entry into the United States, Ellis Island. was a government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression.

He was raised in a Jewish home though he remains a religious skeptic. He states: “Well, I think I am religious in one sense, the particular dogmas of Judaism are not dogmas I subscribe to.

Larry Ellison Spouse

Speaking of his personal life, Ellison has been married four times all of which have ended in divorce. His first marriage was with Adda Quinn in 1967.

At the time, Ellison was starting out and their jobs weren’t making them much money. This meant financial problems that were further enhanced by Ellison’s passion for sailing and riding.

He borrowed money to buy a 34-ft. boat one day, before paying off his other smaller vessel that he had purchased earlier.

They had growing debts and Adda Quinn got worn out by her husband’s aimlessness and decided to divorce him in 1974. The pair went through a marriage counseling session and that is when he revealed his desire to become a millionaire but that could not change Quinn’s mind.

In 1977, Ellison got married to Nancy Wheeler Jenkins. This was six months before Ellison founded Software Development Laboratories. She gave up any claim on her husband’s company for $500 when they got divorced in 1978.

He again got married in 1983, to Barbara Boothe, a former receptionist at Relational Software Inc. (RSI). However, the couple separated in 1986 after having two children together, David and Megan, who are film producers at Skydance Media and Annapurna Pictures, respectively.

In 2003, Ellison got married to his longtime girlfriend, Melanie Craft, a romance novelist from America. Their wedding was at Ellison’s Woodside estate on December 18, 2003.

The late Steve Jobs, former CEO and co-founder of Apple, Inc and Ellison’s friend was the official wedding photographer, while Representative Tom Lantos officiated the ceremony. They however got divorced in 2010, citing reasons known to them.

Larry Ellison Children

Ellison is a father of two: a son and daughter. His son David Ellison was born in 1983 and he is a film producer at Skydance Media, a company he founded and for which he is the CEO.

Ellison’s daughter Margaret Elizabeth “Megan” Ellison, born in 1986, is also a film producer like her older brother. She is the founder of Annapurna Pictures that was established in 2011.

Larry Ellison Salary

According to our reliable sources, Larry Ellison makes around 2 Billion to 5 Billion USD every year, which translates to a monthly average wage of between $200 million and $500 million, and $2 million and $5 million daily. Oracle CEO Lawrence Joseph Ellison consistently ranks among the highest-paid CEOs in the U.S.,

Larry Ellison Net Worth

Ellison has an estimated net worth of 80.1 billion USD as of 2020. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, and CTO of Oracle Corporation.

Through his various sources of income, Larry Ellison has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Larry Ellison House

Ellison owns more homes than he could possibly live in. He is often referred to as “the nation’s most avid trophy-home buyer”. Some of his homes are:

• In 2012, he purchased the Hawaiian island of Lanai which is his largest overall investment by far. He owns 98% of it.

• He paid $3.9 million for a William Wurster home in San Francisco’s swanky Pacific Heights in 1988.

• In Kyoto, Japan, he has a historic garden villa that was reportedly listed for $86 million, though the price he actually paid is unknown.

• In Malibu, California, he owns at least 10 on billionaire-packed Carbon Beach, an $18 million house that belonged to producer Jerry Bruckheimer and bought in 2013 and a $48 million five-bedroom home that once belonged to the late real estate developer Norman Ackenberg. Some of his Malibu homes are often for rent, like his 2,800-square-foot oceanfront cottage.

• He also bought a parcel for $17.6 million that is now home to Nobu Malibu, an ultra-trendy Japanese restaurant popular among Hollywood A-listers.

• A high-end Japanese concept hotel formerly the historic Casa Malibu Inn that he bought in 2007 for $20 million.

• The Malibu Racquet Club that he bought in 2007 for $6.9 million.
• In Snug Harbor, Lake Tahoe, he had a 2.5-acre home that he sold for $20.35 million in July 2014 and has two others in the area, reportedly. It is also reported that he has plans to build another home that’s three times the size of the 2.5-acre one, with 18,000 square feet of living space in addition to an island, waterfalls, and a tennis court.

• The Beechwood Villa in Newport, Rhode Island that he bought in 2010 for $10.5 million.

• Porcupine Creek, a private golf club, located in Rancho Mirage, California. It includes the main house with a whopping 16 bedrooms, in addition to several separate guest houses. He bought this in 2011 for $42.9 million.

• 21 residential properties near his Four Seasons Resorts Lanai at Manele Bay. He bought them in February 2014 and spent a little more than $41 million.

Larry Ellison Yacht

Ellison is a man who loves yachting hence, he owns some. This love has seen him participate in America’s Cup several times and in 2010 he brought the Cup back to America for the first time in 15 years.

His yacht USA 17 won the second race of the 33rd America’s Cup on February 14, 2010, after winning the first race two days earlier.

His Oracle team established kite yachting into the American Cup environment in 2002. In New Zealand, the kite traction flying continued for about 30 minutes.

He owned the eighth largest yacht in the world, Rising Sun, but in 2010, Ellison ended his ownership of the yacht.

His remaining shares in the yacht, he sold to music and film mogul David Geffen. The yacht reportedly cost over $200 million to build. He “downsized” to Musashi, a 288-foot (88-meter) yacht built by Feadship.

In 2013, on September 25, the Oracle Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand to win the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco Bay, California. In 2017, Oracle Racing lost America’s Cup to Team New Zealand.

Larry Ellison Cars

As a rich man, Ellison owns a number of exotic cars. They include an Audi R8 and a McLaren F1 with his favorite being the Acura NSX.

He was known to give these supercars as gifts each year during its production. He reportedly also owns a Lexus LFA and a Lexus LS(XF40).

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Larry Ellison Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Larry Ellison.

Larry Ellison Bio and Wiki

• Full Names: Lawrence Joseph Ellison
• Popular As: Larry Ellison
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and CTO of Oracle Corporation
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: White
• Religion: Jewish
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Larry Ellison Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 76 (2020)
• Zodiac Sign: Leo
• Date of Birth: 17 August 1944
• Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
• Birthday: Aug. 17th

Larry Ellison Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Available
• Height / How Tall?: 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m)
• Weight: 67 kg. (147 lbs)
• Eye Color: light-brown
• Hair Color: grey-brown
• Shoe Size: Not Available
• Biceps Size: Not Available
• Chest Size: Not Available
• Waist Size: Not Available
• Hip Size: Not Available

Larry Ellison Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Louis Ellison
• Mother: Florence Spellman
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Available
• Marital Status: Single
• Wife/Spouse: Married to Adda Quinn (m. 1967; div. 1974)​, Nancy Wheeler Jenkins (m. 1977; div. 1978)​, Barbara Boothe (m. 1983; div. 1986)​, Melanie Craft (m. 2003; div. 2010)
• Children: Sons (David Ellison) Daughter(s) (Margaret Elizabeth “Megan” Ellison)

Larry Ellison Networth and Salary

• Net Worth: 80.1 billion USD as of 2020
• Salary: 2 Billion to 5 Billion USD (Approx.) annually
• Source of Income: Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and CTO of Oracle Corporation

Larry Ellison House and Cars

• Place of living: To be Updated
• Cars: Audi R8, McLaren F1, Acura NSX, Lexus LFA, and a Lexus LS(XF40).

Larry Ellison Oracle

Ellison got hired at a small company called Ampex where he met his future partners at Oracle. As colleagues, Ellison, Edward Oates, and Robert Miner they got a chance to work on a database program for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and upon completion, they called it Oracle.

Theirs was a program that made retrieving and managing data very easy in addition to what other database programs were good at, that is, storing a lot of information.

It was a huge leap forward at the time. Larry however left Ampex later but the former colleagues remained friends and always kept in touch.

He became the vice president of Precision Instruments Co., also a small firm. When it needed a company to create software programs for them, Ellison got the brilliant idea of starting his own business to answer Precision Instruments’ need.

He spoke to Oates and Miner and convinced them to join forces and start a company. Hence in 1977, they came up with Software Development Laboratories and created different programs for Precision Instruments.

Ellison took 60% of the company’s earnings since the company idea was his while his partners took 20% each. They later named the company Oracle, after their CIA program.

Later, IBM released a relational database program, that was mind-blowing at the time. Ellison read the paper on relational database systems and understood they too could create similar programs and sell them to not only to Precision Instruments but anyone.

The three managed to figure out how to create their own similar software, using the IBM paper and called it Oracle. CIA was again their customer, the first one outside Precision Instruments.

A problem arose as their customers used different brands of computers, hence different versions of Oracle were needed, one for each computer type. They again realized that they could create one version that could work on any computer for their success.

They sure did and their sales plummeted, but once Oracle was a multi-million company, Ellison did not know how to manage such a huge business.

In 1990, the company had huge debts that led to its stock value to fall and angry investors to sue Oracle. The board even suggested that Ellison leave but he had his mindset on overcoming the challenges.

He sought help from professionals and with his great efforts, he managed to get the company back on its feet to what it is today.

Larry Ellison Iron Man

In 2010, Ellison made a brief cameo appearance in the film, Iron Man 2.

Larry Ellison Philanthropy

In 1992, he made a $5 million donation to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center after being impressed by the care of Dr. Michael W. Chapman, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California, Davis.

He also opened the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center on the Sacramento campus of the UC Davis Medical Center in 1998.

He was made to donate $100 million to his own charitable foundation without admitting wrongdoing, in order to settle an insider trading lawsuit arising from him selling nearly $1 billion of Oracle stock.

He made donations to Stanford University which raised questions about the independence of two Stanford professors who evaluated the case’s merits for Oracle.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, Ellison made a software donation to the federal government that would enable it to build and run a national identification database and issue ID cards but the donation turned out to be controversial.

He has also donated about 1% ($151,092,103) of his estimated personal wealth. This is according to Forbes’s 2004 list of charitable donations made by the wealthiest 400 Americans.

He pledged $500,000 in 2007 to fortify a community center in Sderot, Israel. In 2014, he made a $10 million donation to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Again in 2017, he made another donation to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. He is also part of the group of people who have signed “The Giving Pledge”.

He donated $200 million to the University of Southern California for establishing a cancer research center: Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC in May 2016.

Larry Ellison Amazon cloud technology lags Oracle database

On October 25 2018 Oracle co-founder Larry threw jabs at e-commerce giant Amazon because it is trying to get at their market share in the cloud.

The two tech behemoths had been engaged in a recent war of words over the performance of Oracle’s database software and cloud tools.

Recently Amazon had announced plans to move off Oracle by 2020, which caused an outage on Prime Day in one of its biggest warehouses, according to an internal report.

“Amazon now has kind of been the No. 1 brand in infrastructure cloud computing,” Ellison said during an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo.

“Let me tell you an interesting fact: Amazon does not use [Amazon web services] to run their business,” he added. “Amazon runs its entire business on top of Oracle, on top of the Oracle database. They have been unable to migrate to AWS because it’s not good enough.”

“We didn’t get our database to the cloud quickly enough,” said Ellison. “So, if you wanted a cloud database, you had to go to Amazon for a database and then you’re able to go to Microsoft for a database. It took us a while for us to build a secure cloud. It’s really hard to build a secure cloud.”

Currently, Amazon has a 33 percent share of the cloud market, followed by Microsoft, which has gained ground recently, climbing from 7 percent to 13 percent.

According to Larry Oracle continues to maintain a dominating position in managing most of the world’s data.

“We think we’re there now. We have by far and away been the best database in the world. Nothing is close,” he said. “We show a series of benchmarks where we’re 10 times faster than Amazon. More importantly, we’re 10 times cheaper to run the same exact thing than Amazon on our database.”

Larry Ellison Quotes on Success

• When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
• I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
• See things in the present, even if they are in the future.
• When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.
• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success but by the fear of failure.

Frequently Asked Questions About Larry Ellison

Who is Larry Ellison?

Larry Ellison (born Lawrence Joseph Ellison) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist who is a co-founder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation. Larry was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the sixth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $69.1 billion, increased from $54.5 billion in June 2018.

How old is Larry Ellison?

Ellison is an American national born on 17^th August 1944, in New York City, New York, USA.

How tall is Larry Ellison?

Ellison stands at a height of 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m).

Is Larry Ellison married?

No, details about his love life are still under review. We will let you know when he gets in a relationship or when we discover helpful information about his love life.

How much is Larry Ellison Worth?

Ellison has an approximate net worth of 80.1 billion USD as of 2020. This amount has been accrued from his leading roles in the business industry.

How much does Larry Ellison make?

According to our reliable sources, Larry Ellison makes around 2 Billion to 5 Billion USD every year, which translates to the monthly average wage of between $200 million and $500 million, and $2 million and $5 million daily. Oracle CEO Lawrence Joseph Ellison consistently ranks among the highest-paid CEOs in the U.S.,

Where does Ellison live?

Because of security reasons, Ellison has not shared his precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of his house.

Is Ellison dead or alive?

Ellison is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.

Where is Ellison Now?

Ellison is pursuing his career in business. He is working as a Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, and CTO of Oracle Corporation.

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