Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle in 1977 after reading a paper by IBM researchers about a relational database system and built it into one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world. Born in New York City in 1944 and raised by an aunt in Chicago, Ellison dropped out of two universities before moving to California and working as a programmer. Oracle's relational database became the backbone of enterprise computing globally. In his seventies, Ellison pivoted Oracle aggressively into cloud computing and AI infrastructure — partnering with OpenAI and pursuing a cloud strategy that returned Oracle to high growth after a decade of flat performance.

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