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Ellison the Almighty, 81, sets his sights on Oxford
The Observer
|September 14, 2025
“God doesn't think he’s Larry Ellison” is the punchline to an old Silicon Valley gag about the difference between the creator of the universe and the creator of the software company Oracle.
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Ellison does seem to have been around for an eternity. He co-founded the database software company in 1977, took it public in 1985 and has been a powerful presence ever since. This week he (briefly) overtook Elon Musk as the world’s richest man after Oracle shares soared, increasing his personal wealth by over $100bn in a day to $393bn.
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