
甲骨文(Oracle)董事长兼首席技术官拉里·埃里森(Larry Ellison)已然征服了科技界。这位数据库领域的先驱在20世纪70年代创立甲骨文,如今净资产接近3450亿美元。本月早些时候,他曾短暂超越埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)成为世界首富,随后又回落至第二位。
然而埃里森家族如今正进军新领域:媒体产业。现年81岁、以联合创立甲骨文而声名远扬的科技界亿万富翁拉里·埃里森,如今正与儿子大卫(David)强势布局媒体版图。大卫旗下天空之舞传媒(Skydance)达成收购派拉蒙环球公司(Paramount Global)的协议,使他得以执掌派拉蒙环球公司[拥有哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)],埃里森家族对派拉蒙和哥伦比亚广播公司的影响力急剧攀升。
唯有埃里森家族成功收购华纳兄弟探索公司(Warner Bros. Discovery),美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)才有机会纳入其麾下;而与TikTok的关联则与美国财团有关,甲骨文/埃里森将在其中持有股份。
埃里森长期支持总统,不仅为其竞选筹集数百万美元资金,更在疫情期间提供战略建议。如今他将在特朗普针对TikTok美国业务的行政令中扮演举足轻重的角色。TikTok美国业务估值约为140亿美元,甲骨文将与私募股权集团银湖资本(Silver Lake)及阿布扎比MGX共同持有约45%股份。
与此同时,42岁的天空之舞传媒创始人兼首席执行官大卫·埃里森凭借父亲的资金支持,以80亿美元达成收购派拉蒙及其子公司(包括哥伦比亚广播公司、MTV和喜剧中心频道)的交易。该公司曾制作《壮志凌云:独行侠》、《碟中谍》等热门影片。据报道,大卫还计划竞购华纳兄弟探索公司——该公司旗下拥有HBO、美国有线电视新闻网和东京广播公司(TBS)等品牌。
埃里森家族正逐渐成为电影、流媒体、电视节目等领域未来的代名词。
两次辍学的拉里·埃里森的财富之路
在甲骨文创始人将闲暇时光倾注于竞速帆船与飞行体验之前,这位白手起家的亿万富翁在芝加哥由姨妈姨父抚养长大。他最初就读于伊利诺伊大学,但在养母去世后辍学。1966年,他进入芝加哥大学修读计算机科学课程,约一学期后再度辍学。
此后他迅速移居加州学习编程技能。辗转于富国银行(Wells Fargo)和科技公司Amdahl期间,他不断精进编程技能,最终在33岁时成为自己的老板。
1977年,埃里森仅以2000美元启动资金联合创立软件开发实验室——这家数据库公司后来发展为甲骨文。该公司后来成为全球最受欢迎的企业软件产品的支柱,甚至在互联网泡沫时期为初创公司提供数据库服务,在该特殊历史阶段扮演了举足轻重的角色。
尽管如今甲骨文市值已突破8110亿美元大关,埃里森仍持有这家科技巨头约40%的股份——而他所掌控的这家科技巨头影响力如此之大,以至于为各国政府提供数据服务。
如今,这位亿万富翁承诺通过埃里森科技研究所(Ellison Institute of Technology)捐赠95%的财富,该研究所旨在解决全球性问题,如医疗保健、粮食安全、气候变化和人工智能发展,其斥资约13亿美元在牛津新建的主校区即将启用,同时他已向癌症研究与治疗中心捐赠数百万美元。(*)
译者:中慧言-王芳
甲骨文(Oracle)董事长兼首席技术官拉里·埃里森(Larry Ellison)已然征服了科技界。这位数据库领域的先驱在20世纪70年代创立甲骨文,如今净资产接近3450亿美元。本月早些时候,他曾短暂超越埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)成为世界首富,随后又回落至第二位。
然而埃里森家族如今正进军新领域:媒体产业。现年81岁、以联合创立甲骨文而声名远扬的科技界亿万富翁拉里·埃里森,如今正与儿子大卫(David)强势布局媒体版图。大卫旗下天空之舞传媒(Skydance)达成收购派拉蒙环球公司(Paramount Global)的协议,使他得以执掌派拉蒙环球公司[拥有哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)],埃里森家族对派拉蒙和哥伦比亚广播公司的影响力急剧攀升。
唯有埃里森家族成功收购华纳兄弟探索公司(Warner Bros. Discovery),美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)才有机会纳入其麾下;而与TikTok的关联则与美国财团有关,甲骨文/埃里森将在其中持有股份。
埃里森长期支持总统,不仅为其竞选筹集数百万美元资金,更在疫情期间提供战略建议。如今他将在特朗普针对TikTok美国业务的行政令中扮演举足轻重的角色。TikTok美国业务估值约为140亿美元,甲骨文将与私募股权集团银湖资本(Silver Lake)及阿布扎比MGX共同持有约45%股份。
与此同时,42岁的天空之舞传媒创始人兼首席执行官大卫·埃里森凭借父亲的资金支持,以80亿美元达成收购派拉蒙及其子公司(包括哥伦比亚广播公司、MTV和喜剧中心频道)的交易。该公司曾制作《壮志凌云:独行侠》、《碟中谍》等热门影片。据报道,大卫还计划竞购华纳兄弟探索公司——该公司旗下拥有HBO、美国有线电视新闻网和东京广播公司(TBS)等品牌。
埃里森家族正逐渐成为电影、流媒体、电视节目等领域未来的代名词。
两次辍学的拉里·埃里森的财富之路
在甲骨文创始人将闲暇时光倾注于竞速帆船与飞行体验之前,这位白手起家的亿万富翁在芝加哥由姨妈姨父抚养长大。他最初就读于伊利诺伊大学,但在养母去世后辍学。1966年,他进入芝加哥大学修读计算机科学课程,约一学期后再度辍学。
此后他迅速移居加州学习编程技能。辗转于富国银行(Wells Fargo)和科技公司Amdahl期间,他不断精进编程技能,最终在33岁时成为自己的老板。
1977年,埃里森仅以2000美元启动资金联合创立软件开发实验室——这家数据库公司后来发展为甲骨文。该公司后来成为全球最受欢迎的企业软件产品的支柱,甚至在互联网泡沫时期为初创公司提供数据库服务,在该特殊历史阶段扮演了举足轻重的角色。
尽管如今甲骨文市值已突破8110亿美元大关,埃里森仍持有这家科技巨头约40%的股份——而他所掌控的这家科技巨头影响力如此之大,以至于为各国政府提供数据服务。
如今,这位亿万富翁承诺通过埃里森科技研究所(Ellison Institute of Technology)捐赠95%的财富,该研究所旨在解决全球性问题,如医疗保健、粮食安全、气候变化和人工智能发展,其斥资约13亿美元在牛津新建的主校区即将启用,同时他已向癌症研究与治疗中心捐赠数百万美元。(*)
译者:中慧言-王芳
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman and chief technology officer, has by all means conquered the tech world. With a net worth near $345 billion, the database pioneer began his success by founding Oracle in the 1970s. Earlier this month, he briefly became the richest person in the world, topping Elon Musk before going back to second place.
However, the Ellison name now has a new venture: media. Larry Ellison is 81 and a tech billionaire best known for cofounding Oracle and now moving aggressively into media alongside his son David. The Ellison family’s influence over Paramount and CBS has surged because David Ellison’s Skydance deal to acquire Paramount Global places him atop the company that owns CBS.
CNN could come into the fold only if the family succeeds in a potential Warner Bros. Discovery pursuit, and TikTok involvement is tied to a U.S. consortium where Oracle/Ellison would hold a stake.
Ellison has been an ongoing ally of the president, raising millions for his campaign and advising him during the COVID-19 pandemic. And now, he’s poised to play a critical role in President Donald Trump’s executive order for TikTok’s U.S. operations. The U.S. branch of TikTok is valued at approximately $14 billion. Oracle, along with private equity group Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX would together hold around 45%.
Meanwhile, with the help of his father’s money, David, the 42-year-old founder and CEO of Skydance Media—the company behind hit films like Top Gun: Maverick and Mission Impossible— has secured an $8 billion deal to purchase Paramount and its subsidiaries including CBS, MTV, and Comedy Center. David is also reportedly eyeing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent media conglomerate behind brands like HBO, CNN and TBS.
Altogether, the Ellison family name is taking shape to be the future of movies, streaming, TV shows and more.
Larry Ellison’s road to wealth as a two-time college dropout
Before the Oracle founder spent his free time racing sailboats and flying planes, the self-made billionaire was raised by his aunt and uncle in Chicago. He first attended the University of Illinois but dropped out after his adoptive mother passed away. Later in 1966, he enrolled at University of Chicago, where he took computer science classes for about a semester before dropping out once more.
He then swiftly moved to California and picked up programming skills. From there, he hopped around different jobs from Wells Fargo to tech company Amdahl, where he adapted more programming skills before becoming his own boss at just 33 years old.
With an initial investment of just $2,000, Ellison co-founded Software Development Laboratories in 1977—the database company which would later become Oracle Corporation. It went on to become the backbone of some of the world’s most popular enterprise software offerings, and even stayed as a salient figure in the dot-com boom when it supplied databases to startup companies.
With a market cap of over $811 billion, Ellison still owns about 40% of the technology giant—and his technology giant has become so influential it provides data services to governments.
Today, the billionaire pledged to give away 95% of his fortune through the Ellison Institute of Technology, which aims to address global issues such as healthcare, food insecurity, climate change, and AI advancements, with a major new campus opening in Oxford worth approximately $1.3 billion. And he’s already donated millions to cancer research and treatment centers.