Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%. He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm. Oracle has grown in part through steady acquisitions of software companies, the biggest of which was $9.3 billion for NetSuite in 2016. In 2020, Ellison moved permanently to the Hawaiian island Lanai, which he bought nearly all of in 2012 for $300 million. Ellison joined Tesla’s board in December 2018, after purchasing 3 million Tesla shares earlier that year.