For decades, Larry Ellson He has discovered that he was a Celon Valley Executive Director who really knew how to have a fun time. He spent up to 200 million dollars in building the Japanese -inspired imperial villa near Palu Aluo, California, bought the sixth largest Hawaiian island and dating and married with enthusiasm that never ends.
A little attention to what his database company has done, Oracle. Sometimes, Mr. Ellison did not. He did not attend his main conversation at the annual conference of Oracle in San Francisco in 2013 because he was in a yacht trying to win American CupThis is what he did. The biography of him was entitled “The difference between God and Larry Ellison: God does not think that he is Larry Ellison.”
With a wealth of $ 175 billion, Mr. Elison’s many left to buy this would seriously mistake his wallet. He destroyed a record in Florida in 2022 when he bought a 22-acre property near Palm Beach-but at $ 173 million, the price was 1 percent of his wealth. Invest $ 1 billion in Elon Musk acquired Twitter In the same year because, he said at that time, “a lot of fun will be.”
Now 80 years old and married for the fifth or perhaps sixth time, Mr. Ellison expands his ambitions further in fun and surrounds beautiful things. After the path of his friend, Mr. Musk, who has at least six companies feeding on each other, it seems that Mr. Ellison is also planning to develop his commercial empire.
Oracle remains emerging A possible bidder for TiqukukThe famous video application decided by Congress needs to be owned by the Chinese internet company by or was banned in the United States. On Wednesday, President Trump Plan to meet senior White House officials To discuss a new ownership structure of the application. The deadline of the deal is on Saturday, although the deadlines for Tikkuk have come and went before.
Oracle became almost the owner of the US Tiktok minority in 2020, along with Walmart, when concerns about the safety data were ravaged. A deal was negotiated as Oracle has started storing user data in its cloud. Oracle will also Owning 12.5 percent For a new company, Tiktok Global. The last part, like many tiktok deals, never happened.
Five years later, a lot has changed, starting with this: technology was unleashed.
Mr. Musk, with the support of President Trump, is obliterating the lines between the public and the private. It blows government agencies and uses its wide wealth to try to influence the elections. It seems that Mr. Ellison, who may be closer to Mr. Trump more than any pole than this aspect of Mr. Musk, does not want anything less than bringing the country under the charitable influence of artificial intelligence, who said he would achieve a era of rewards and harmony.
One company, even if it is successful like Oracle, may not help him approach this goal. Several, though, perhaps.
Mr. Elison offers most of the offer of $ 8 billion by his son, David, to buy Paramount, the owner of the legendary Hollywood studio as well as CBS, MTV and other features that generate news and content. (The deal still needs organizational approval). It has a monthly active user base of 1.5 billion, about ten in the United States.
Then there is a wild card worker: Mr. Ellison near President Trump. In January, Mr. Ellison was shown prominently at the White House to announce a project called StargateWhich will build data centers for artificial intelligence. President Trump was asked if Mr. Musk might buy Tiktok, and volunteered that “I would like to buy Larry as well.”
“All of these pieces gather to form something that is not completely clear after that except for this: the Ellison family will be in the center,” said Richard Greenfield, media analyst with Lightshed partners.
The White House, Tikktok, Mr. Ellison and Oracle rejected the comment or did not respond to the suspension requests. Mr. Elson in any case looks at the road. He told Vanity Fair in 1997: “The only way I know is to make myself feel better is to make the world better,” he told Vanity Fair in 1997.
Mr. Ellison was trying recently to make the world better by pressing a monitoring community. There will be cameras everywhere, with every movement analyzed by artificial intelligence
“Citizens will be their best behavior, because we are constantly registering and notifying everything that is going on,” he told Oracle Investors last fall. “It cannot be overcome.”
Also in the list of tasks for Mr. Ellison, it combines thousands of databases in a huge electronic warehouse, which can be extracted by artificial intelligence that will treat diseases and fix everything else, as Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, told a seminar on the re -invention of the government held in Dubai in February.
Mr. Elison, who appeared via a video, told MR. Blair: “I think this will make a happier citizen.”
Mr. Ellison set a search for setbacks. In November, a California federal court granted final approval to settle a collective lawsuit accused of Oracle of taking and selling individuals’ data via the Internet and incorrectly connected without their permission. Oracle agreed to pay 115 million dollars without admitting the error.
During the narrow peak of Mr. Ellison in the 1990s, he presented a remarkable contradiction to what was the relatively sober silicon valley. He described his office style as “by irony”. After Oracle has an experience close to death, he explained: “Oracle manages teenagers. This includes me.” He told reporters that he would launch an agent and control of Apple. Dip in long -term runner, if it is one side, with microsoft.
Then there was his wives and friends. “As an inventor of warriors in three marriages, do you feel that you can do this better this time?” He asked him Playboy in 2002.
“There is no doubt that I can do it better.” “Can I do it worse? I don’t think so.”
In 2003, he married Melanie Craft, a romantic novelist, he became wife 4. Steve Jobs was a wedding photographer. “Man Trouble”, a reporter who convinces a romantic novelist to help him disrupt an interview with a shy billionaire.
The ideal politician of Mr. Ellison in that era was democratically. He joked once that the constitution should be amended so that Bill Clinton can obtain a third term. Mr. Ellison became more conservative in the twenty -first century, as he developed a friendship with Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel and the apostasy against what Barack Obama’s approach to combating Israel considered.
“Bill Clinton was focused. Tony Blair was a central. Marco Rubio is the middle. Mit Romney is the middle. This is my politician,” Mr. Ellson He said in 2018.
Now his policy is President Trump, but it took some time to get there. In the 2016 presidential race, Mr. Ellison supported Mr. Rubio, a Republican Senator from Florida and then Trump’s critic. In 2020, Mr. Trump persuaded Mr. Ellison to host donation collection at the golf course in southern California. Although his name appeared on the invitation as a single host, Mr. Elison rid the event, and he told people that he was sick.
Four years later, Mr. Trump, again, was not the first option for Mr. Elison for the president. Mr. Ellison traveled to South Carolina for the speech of the Senator Tim Scott, a Republican in South Carolina, where Mr. Scott described the billionaire as a “guide”.
after Mr. Scott Mr. Trump needs money, Mr. Elison approached the new Republican candidate, Eat with him in Mar Lago. This sometimes helped he live near his recently purchased home in Florida.
While Mr. Ellison is not in the inner circle of Mr. Trump, and he did not make general donations to support the campaign, he appeared in Mar Lago to sit at a transitional meeting.
During President Trump’s first term, Mr. Ellison developed an interest in Tiktok, which led Tiktok, Oracle and Walmart It was approved by Mr. Trump.
This time, Wall Mart is expected to participate. A friend of Mr. Elson, who does not talk about the chain of transmission in order to speak frankly, said that the technology pole was likely to be affected by the ownership of Mr. Musk on Twitter, which is now called X. It is one thing to be rich. Mr. Musk is related to consumers, with power in culture, politics and media.
Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, instead of Mr. Elison, was the negotiator in TIKTOK conversations, according to a person involved in this process. Even assuming that Oracle is somewhat hitting Tiktok, it is likely that their owners will not cancel the video application, according to people close to the operation. Perhaps it will not include the algorithm that made the social media company very successful.
Iman Ellison in technology is not engraved. Terry Garnett, October Marketing Chairman, suffered from the fate of many executives in Oracle when he was rejected by Mr. Ellison in 1994. For some time, Mr. Garnett was holding a grudge but he came since then to appreciate his former president.
“At the end of the day, he loves technology,” said Mr. Garnet. “It is simply.”
What if Oracle is not a consumer company, and if its most prominent attempt to try to become one – a group of cheap desktop computers in the late 1990s that challenge the dominance of Microsoft programs?
“Think about Tiktok as video data – unorganized data suitable for another segment of this Oracle matrix,” said Mr. Garnett, a private investor. “Whoever has data has strength.”
