On September 10, 2025, Ellison was briefly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $393 billion.[4][5][6][7][8] Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98 percent ofLanai, the sixth-largest island in theHawaiian Islands.[9]
Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City to a Jewish mother, Florence Spellman.[10][11][12][13] His biological father was an Italian-AmericanUnited States Army Air Corps pilot. After Ellison contractedpneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother gave him to her aunt and uncle for adoption.[13] He did not meet Spellman again until he was 48.[14]
Ellison moved with his adoptive parents to Chicago'sSouth Shore, then a primarily Jewish middle-class neighborhood.[15] He remembers his adoptive mother, Lillian Spellman Ellison,[16] as warm and loving. He found his adoptive father, Louis Ellison, to be austere, unsupportive, and often distant. A government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during theGreat Depression, Louis had chosen his last name to honorEllis Island, his point of entry into the United States.[13]
Ellison was raised in aReform Jewish home by his adoptive parents, who attended synagogue regularly, but he remained a religious skeptic. At age 13, Ellison refused to have abar mitzvah celebration.[17] Ellison said: "While I think I am religious in one sense, the particular dogmas of Judaism are not dogmas I subscribe to. I don't believe that they are real. They're interesting stories. They're interesting mythology, and I certainly respect people who believe these are literally true, but I don't. I see no evidence for this stuff."[18] Ellison says that his fondness forIsrael is not connected to religious sentiments but rather due to Israelis' innovative spirit in the technology sector.[19]
Ellison attendedSouth Shore High School in Chicago,[20] was admitted toUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and enrolled as apre-med student.[20] At the university, he was named science student of the year.[21][22] He withdrew without taking final exams after his sophomore year because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending the summer of 1966 in California, he then attended theUniversity of Chicago for one term, where he studiedphysics and mathematics[20] and also first encounteredcomputer design. He then moved toBerkeley, California, and began his career as a computer programmer for several different companies.[16]
During the 1970s, after a brief stint atAmdahl Corporation, Ellison began working forAmpex Corporation. His first project included a database for theCIA, code-named "Oracle".[23][24] Ellison was inspired by a paper written byEdgar F. Codd onrelational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".[25] In 1977, Ellison, Ed Oates and Bruce Scott joined Software Development Laboratories (SDL) several months after it was founded by Ellison's supervisor at Amphex, Bob Miner. They invested $2,000 (equivalent to $10,378 in 2024), $1,200 (equivalent to $6,227 in 2024) of which was Ellison's.[26] Although he had strong technical skills—Ellison was not officially categorized as a developer until about 1984—the founders decided that as the others were stronger technically, he would run sales.[27]
In 1979, the company renamed itself Relational Software, Inc. (RSI). Ellison had heard about theIBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to achieve compatibility with it, but IBM made this impossible by refusing to share System R's error codes.[28] The initial release of theOracle Database in 1979 was called Oracle version 2; there was no Oracle version 1.[29] In 1983, the company officially became Oracle Systems Corporation after its flagship product. In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% of its workforce (about 400 people) because it was losing money.[30] This crisis, which almost resulted in the company's bankruptcy, came about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing their bonuses. This became a problem when the future sales failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and had to settleclass-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison later said that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake".[31]
Although IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with itsDB2 andSQL/DS database products, it delayed entering the market for a relational database onUnix andWindows operating systems. This left the door open forSybase, Oracle,Ingres,Informix, and eventuallyMicrosoft to dominate mid-range systems and microcomputers. Around this time, Oracle fell behind Sybase. From 1990 to 1993, Sybase was the fastest-growing database company and the database industry's darling vendor, but soon it fell victim tomerger mania. Sybase's 1996 merger with Powersoft resulted in a loss of focus on its core database technology. In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the name "SQL Server".
In his early years at Oracle, Ellison was named an Award Recipient in the High Technology Category for theErnst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program.[32]
In 1994, Informix overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. The intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison was front-page Silicon Valley news for three years. In April 1997, Informix announced a major revenue shortfall and earnings restatements. White eventually landed in jail, andIBM absorbed Informix in 2001. Also in 1997, Ellison was made a director ofApple Computer afterSteve Jobs returned to the company. Ellison resigned in 2002. With the defeat of Informix and of Sybase, Oracle enjoyed years of industry dominance until the rise of Microsoft SQL Server in the late 1990s and IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2001 to complement theirDB2 database. By 2013 Oracle's main competition for new database licenses on UNIX,Linux, and Windows operating systems came from IBM's DB2 and from Microsoft SQL Server. IBM's DB2 still dominated themainframe database market.
In 2005, Ellison agreed to settle a four-year-old insider-trading lawsuit by offering to pay $100 million (equivalent to $160,998,467 in 2024) to charity in Oracle's name.[33]
In 2005, Oracle Corporation paid Ellison a $975,000 salary (equivalent to $1,569,735 in 2024), a $6,500,000 bonus (equivalent to $10,464,900 in 2024), and other compensation of $955,100 (equivalent to $1,537,696 in 2024).[34] In 2007, Ellison earned a total compensation of $61,180,524 (equivalent to $92,777,206 in 2024), which included a base salary of $1,000,000 (equivalent to $1,516,450 in 2024), a cash bonus of $8,369,000 (equivalent to $12,691,170 in 2024), and options granted of $50,087,100 (equivalent to $75,954,583 in 2024).[35] In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $84,598,700 (equivalent to $123,550,713 in 2024), which included a base salary of $1,000,000 (equivalent to $1,460,433 in 2024), a cash bonus of $10,779,000 (equivalent to $15,742,005 in 2024), no stock grants, and options granted of $71,372,700 (equivalent to $104,235,030 in 2024).[36] In the year ending May 31, 2009, he made $56.8 million (equivalent to $83,248,519 in 2024).[37] In 2006,Forbes ranked him as the richest Californian.[38] In April 2009, after a tug-of-war with IBM andHewlett-Packard, Oracle announced its intent to buySun Microsystems.[39] On July 2, 2009, for the fourth year in a row, Oracle's board awarded Ellison another 7 million stock options.[40] On August 22, 2009, it was reported that Ellison would be paid only$1 for his base salary for the fiscal year of 2010, down from the $1,000,000 (equivalent to $1,465,643 in 2024) he was paid in fiscal 2009.[37][41]
After approval from regulators in theUnited States and theEuropean Union, Oracle acquired its competitor Sun Microsystems on January 21, 2010.[42] The Sun acquisition also gave Oracle control of the popularMySQL open source database, which Sun had acquired in 2008.[43] On August 9, 2010, Ellison denounced Hewlett-Packard's board for firing CEOMark Hurd, writing: "The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago." Ellison and Hurd were close personal friends.[44] On September 6, Oracle hired Hurd as co-president alongsideSafra Catz. Ellison remained in his current role at Oracle.[45]
Ellison was an early investor inTheranos. He is played byHart Bochner in the 2022 miniseriesThe Dropout, about Theranos and its founderElizabeth Holmes.[46][47] In March 2010, theForbeslist of billionaires ranked Ellison as the sixth-richest person in the world and as the third-richest American, with an estimated net worth of over $28 billion (equivalent to $40,374,179,765 in 2024).[38] On July 27, 2010,The Wall Street Journal reported that Ellison was the highest-paid executive in the last decade, collecting a total compensation of US$1.84 billion (equivalent to $2,653,160,385 in 2024).[48] In September 2011, Ellison was listed on theForbes list of billionaires as the fifth richest man in the world and was still the third richest American, with a net worth of about $36.5 billion (equivalent to $51,019,008,876 in 2024). In September 2012, Ellison was again listed on theForbes list of billionaires as the third richest American citizen, behindBill Gates andWarren Buffett, with a net worth of $44 billion (equivalent to $60,263,226,555 in 2024). In October 2012, he was listed just behindDavid Hamilton Koch as the eighth-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[49] Ellison owns stakes inSalesforce.com,NetSuite,Quark Biotechnology Inc. andAstex Pharmaceuticals.[50][51] In June 2012, Ellison agreed to buy 98 percent of the Hawaiian island ofLānaʻi fromDavid H. Murdock's company,Castle & Cooke. The price was reported to be between $500 million (equivalent to $684,809,393 in 2024) and $600 million (equivalent to $821,771,271 in 2024).[52] In 2013, according toThe Wall Street Journal, Ellison earned $94.6 million (equivalent to $127,696,486 in 2024).[53] On September 18, 2014, Ellison appointedMark Hurd to CEO of Oracle from his former position as president;Safra Catz was also made CEO, moving from her former role as CFO. Ellison assumed the positions of chief technology officer and executive chairman.[54][55]
In November 2016, Oracle bought NetSuite for $9.3 billion (equivalent to $12,184,650,582 in 2024). Ellison owned 35% of NetSuite at the time of the purchase making him $3.5 billion personally (equivalent to $4,585,621,187 in 2024).[56]
In 2017,Forbes estimated that Ellison was the 4th-richest person in the technology sector.[57]
In June 2018, Ellison's net worth was about $54.5 billion (equivalent to $68,244,169,096 in 2024), according toForbes.[58]
In December 2018, Ellison became a director on the board ofTesla, Inc., after purchasing 3 million shares earlier that year.[59][60] Ellison left the Tesla Board in August 2022.[61]
In June 2020, Ellison was reported to be the seventh-wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $66.8 billion (equivalent to $81,161,527,581 in 2024).[62]
In late 2022, Ellison owned 42.9% of the shares of Oracle Corporation,[63] and in June 2023, he owned 1.4% of the shares of Tesla.[64]
Ellison's software startup, Project Ronin, which he co-founded withDavid Agus and Dave Hodgson, closed in 2024. The company intended to transform cancer care using products intended to quickly analyze data within electronic medical records systems.[65][66]
Ellison (right) with Secretary of StateMike Pompeo in 2020
Ellison was critical ofNSA whistle-blowerEdward Snowden, saying, "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection".[67] In 2012, he donated to bothDemocratic andRepublican politicians,[68] and in late 2014 hosted Republican senatorRand Paul at a fundraiser at his home.[69][70]
Since 2016, Ellison has been supporting Republicans;[71] he was one of the top donors ($4 million by February 2016, equivalent to $5,240,710 in 2024) to Conservative Solutions PAC, a superPAC supportingMarco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid.[72] He has called Rubio acentrist.[71] In 2020, Ellison allowed presidentDonald Trump to have a fundraiser at hisRancho Mirage estate,[73][74] but Ellison was not present.[75] In January 2022, Ellison donated $15 million (equivalent to $16,117,239 in 2024) to the Opportunity Matters Fund super PAC associated with SenatorTim Scott, one of the biggest financial contributions of the2022 midterm elections.[76]
In 2017, Ellison donated $16.6 million (equivalent to $21,294,244 in 2024) to theFriends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), saying, "Since Israel's founding, we have called on the brave men and women of the IDF to defend our home". This was the largest donation in the organization's history.[79][80] According to reports in 2019, Ellison has contributed to funding an archaeological excavation project inEast Jerusalem that received criticism fromPalestinians as well as Israeli peace activists and somearchaeologists.[81][82][83] Additionally, a $1 billion (equivalent to $1,229,858,128 in 2024) lawsuit was filed in 2019 against several Israel supporters, including Ellison. The lawsuit accused Ellison and others of conspiring toethnically cleanse Palestinians from Israeli-occupied territories, committingwar crimes, and funding genocide.[84][85] The case was dismissed in February 2024.[86] Ellison reportedly lobbied Israeli mogulArnon Milchan to drop his lawyer so thatBenjamin Netanyahu could hire him for one ofhis corruption cases.[87][88] It was also revealed in 2021 that Ellison offered Netanyahu a post at Oracle.[89] The same year, Netanyahu and his family vacationed at an island Ellison owns inHawaii.[90]
Ellison married Adda Quinn in 1967.[91] They divorced in 1974.[92]
Ellison married Nancy Wheeler Jenkins shortly after meeting her in late 1976.[93] In 1978, they divorced and Wheeler sold back her shares in SDL to Ellison for $500.[94]
Ellison was married to Barbara Boothe from 1983 to 1986.[95] Boothe was a former receptionist at RSI.[96] They had two children,David andMegan, who were (as of 2012) film producers atSkydance Media andAnnapurna Pictures, respectively.[97][a]
On December 18, 2003, Ellison married Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, at his Woodside estate. Ellison's friendSteve Jobs, former CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc., was the official wedding photographer,[99] and RepresentativeTom Lantos officiated. They divorced in 2010.[100]
In 2015, Ellison reportedly married his then girlfriend Nikita Kahn. They separated in December 2016 after a marriage of less than 18 months.[101] Their divorce was finalized in 2020.[102]
As of 2024, Ellison is married to Jolin (Keren) Ellison (née Zhu),[103][104] an alumna of the University of Michigan.[105]
Ellison owns many exotic cars, including anAudi R8 and aMcLaren F1. His favorite is theAcura NSX, which he gave as gifts each year during its production.[51] Ellison also reportedly owns aLexus LFA.[108]
Ellison owns at least fourVincent van Gogh paintings. His collection includes Bridge across the Seine at Asnières[109] and Farmhouse among Olive Trees.[110]
Ellison styled his estimated $110 millionWoodside, California, estate afterfeudal Japanesearchitecture, complete with a man-made 2.3-acre (0.93 ha) lake and an extensiveseismic retrofit.[111] In 2004 and 2005 he purchased more than 12 properties inMalibu, California, worth more than $180 million. The $65 million Ellison spent on five contiguous lots at Malibu's Carbon Beach made this the most costly residential transaction in U.S. history until bankerRonald Perelman sold hisPalm Beach, Florida, compound for $70 million later that year.[112] The entertainment system at hisPacific Heights home cost $1 million, and includes a rock concert-sized video projector at one end of a drained swimming pool, using the gaping hole as a giant subwoofer.[113][114]
In 2011, he purchased the 249-acre Porcupine Creek Estate and private golf course inRancho Mirage, California for $42.9 million.[115] The property was formerly the home ofYellowstone Club founders Edra andTim Blixseth, and was sold to Ellison by creditors following their divorce and bankruptcy.[116]
In 2022, Ellison bought a 22-acre property inManalapan, Florida, for $173 million. He purchased it fromJim Clark, who in turn had acquired it from theZiff family. It is the most expensive residential property purchase in Florida history.[117]
In December 2020, he left California and moved to the island ofLānaʻi, where he owns 98 percent of the land.[118] In subsequent years, tensions have been reported between Ellison's businesses on the island and some residents over housing and access. A 2022 Bloomberg feature described how many Lānaʻi residents both work for and rent from Ellison's companies, with commercial tenants commonly on short 30-day leases and some residential leases including provisions allowing termination of tenancy upon loss of employment.[119][120] In August 2022,Maui County warned Ellison's Lānaʻi Resorts not to block public access to Hulopoʻe Beach Park, but the park's gate was closed anyway. The company said the closure was due to flooding, but local residents disputed that and the duration of the closure.[121] In 2023, the Ellison-owned Lānaʻi Water Company put a significant multi-year rate increase before regulators citing infrastructure and operating costs. This drew concern from some customers about affordability.[122]
Ellison is a licensed pilot who has owned several aircraft.[14] He was cited by the city ofSan Jose, California, for violating itslimits on late-night takeoffs and landings fromSan Jose Mineta International Airport by planes weighing more than 75,000 pounds (34,019 kg). In January 2000, Ellison sued over the interpretation of the airport rule, contending that hisGulfstream V aircraft "is certified by the manufacturer to fly at two weights: 75,000 pounds, and at 90,000 pounds for heavier loads or long flights requiring more fuel. But the pilot only lands the plane in San Jose when it weighs 75,000 pounds or less, and has the logs to prove it."[123] US District JudgeJeremy Fogel ruled in Ellison's favor in June 2001, calling for a waiver for Ellison's jet, but did not invalidate the curfew.[124]
Ellison also owns at least two military jets: the Italian training aircraftSIAI-Marchetti S.211, and a decommissioned Soviet fighterMiG-29, which the US government has refused him permission to import.[14]
In 2017, Ellison funded a farming company called Sensei Ag with a promise to use AI, robotics, and software to remake the way people around the world eat. A Wall Street Journal report in February 2025 criticized the effort by saying that the whole endeavor was not keeping its promise due to some basic mistakes on choice of technology, leadership, and having access to know how.[128]
With the economic downturn of 2010, Ellison sold his share ofRising Sun, the12th largestyacht in the world, makingDavid Geffen the sole owner.[131] The vessel is 453 feet (138 metres) long,[132] and reportedly cost over $200million to build. He downsized toMusashi, a 288-foot (88-metre) yacht built byFeadship.[133]
In 2002, Ellison's Oracle's team introduced kite yachting into the America's Cup environment. Kite sail flying lasting about thirty minutes was achieved during testing in New Zealand.[135]
BMW Oracle Racing was the "Challenger of Record" on behalf of theGolden Gate Yacht Club of San Francisco for the2007 America's Cup inValencia, Spain, until eliminated from the2007 Louis Vuitton Cup challenger-selection series in the semi-finals. On February 14, 2010, Ellison's yachtUSA 17 won the second race (in the best of three "deed of gift" series) of the33rd America's Cup, after winning the first race two days earlier. Securing a historic victory, Ellison and his BMW Oracle team became the first challengers to win a "deed of gift" match. The Cup returned to American shores for the first time since 1995. Ellison served as a crew member in the second race.[136] Previously, Ellison had filed several legal challenges, through theGolden Gate Yacht Club, against the way thatErnesto Bertarelli (also one of the world's richest men) proposed to organize the33rd America's Cup following the 2007 victory of Bertarelli's teamAlinghi.[136][137] The races were finally held[clarification needed] in February 2010 in Valencia.
On September 25, 2013, Ellison's Oracle Team USA defeatedEmirates Team New Zealand to win the34th America's Cup inSan Francisco Bay, California.[138] Oracle Team USA had been penalized two points in the final for cheating by some team members during the America's Cup World Series warm-up events.[139] The Oracle team came from a 1–8 deficit to win 9–8, in what has been called "one of the greatest comebacks in sports history".[140]
In 2019, Ellison, in conjunction withRussell Coutts, started theSailGP international racing series.[141] The series usedF50 foiling catamarans, the fastest class of boat in history with regattas held across the globe. Ellison committed to five years of funding to support the series until it could become self-sustaining. The first season was successful with global audiences of over 1.8 billion.[142][143][144]
In 1992, Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment atUniversity of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center. In 1998, the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center opened on theSacramento campus of theUC Davis Medical Center.[145]
To settle aninsider trading lawsuit arising from his selling nearly $1 billion of Oracle stock, a court allowed Ellison to donate $100 million to his own charitable foundation without admitting wrongdoing. A California judge refused to allow Oracle to pay Ellison's legal fees of $24 million. Ellison's lawyer had argued that if Ellison were to pay the fees, that could be construed as an admission of guilt. His charitable donations toStanford University raised questions about the independence of two Stanford professors who evaluated the case's merits for Oracle.[146] In response to theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, Ellison made a controversial offer to donate software to the federal government[147] that would have enabled it to build and run a national identification database and to issueID cards.[148]
Forbes' 2004 list of charitable donations made by the wealthiest 400 Americans stated that Ellison had donated[when?] $151,092,103, about 1% of his estimated personal wealth.[149] In August 2010, a report listed Ellison as one of the 40 billionaires who had signed "The Giving Pledge".[150][151] In June 2006, Ellison announced he would not honor his earlier pledge of $115 million toHarvard University, claiming it was due to the departure of former presidentLawrence Summers. Oracle spokesman Bob Wynne announced, "It was really Larry Summers' brainchild and once it looked like Larry Summers was leaving, Larry Ellison reconsidered".[152]
In 2007, Ellison pledged $500,000 to fortify acommunity centre inSderot, Israel, after discovering that the building was not fortified against rocket attacks.[153] Other charitable donations by Ellison include a $10 million donation to theFriends of the Israel Defense Forces in 2014 followed by a $16.6 million donation in 2017 intended to support the construction of well-being facilities on a new campus forco-ed conscripts.[154][155]
In May 2016, Ellison donated $200 million to theUniversity of Southern California to establish a cancer research center: the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC.[156][157] It was renamed the Ellison Institute of Technology, and an additional campus was established in Oxford in 2023 with the intention of providing a scholarship program for 20 students each year.[158][65]
In 2023, his foundation gave over £52 million to theTony Blair Institute for Global Change and has promised another $218 million.[159] Between 2021 and 2023, Ellison invested $130 million in the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and has pledged a further $218 million since then.[160][161]
Ellison has been described as a contemporary American king on Lāna'i, 98% of which belongs to him. A provision in his rental agreement stipulates that anyone who loses a job with his company may also be evicted from their home, and many people both work for and rent from him; additionally, small enterprises' lease agreements, which formerly could be as long as five years, are now usually 30 days. According to Lānai's representative on the regionalMaui County Council, Gabe Johnson, the government has limited authority over public infrastructure.[162]
In 2013, Ellison was inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame.[165]
In 2019, the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC honored Ellison with the first Rebels With A Cause Award in recognition of his generous support through the years.[166]
^Wilson, Mike (2003).The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison. Harper Business. p. 19.ISBN978-0060008765.Larry was a religious skeptic from the beginning. The Ellisons, who were Jewish, attended synagogue regularly—"and dragged me along" he said. "While I think I'm religious in one sense, the particular dogmas of Judaism are not dogmas I subscribe to. I don't believe that they're real. They're interesting stories, they're wonderful mythology, and I certainly respect people who believe that these are literally true, but I don't. . . . I see no evidence for this stuff." To please his parents, Ellison tried to study the Torah, to no avail. "I couldn't make myself do it. ... I lost interest. My mind wandered in four seconds. It was an impossibility," he said.
^Weiss, Bari (October 6, 2025)."The Future of The Free Press".The Free Press.Archived from the original on October 10, 2025. RetrievedOctober 19, 2025.[...] This morning, The Free Press is joining Paramount. [...] From day one, the promise—and the business proposition—of this publication was simple: [...] We would seek the truth [...] we would treat readers like adults [...] many people told us this was no longer possible. That the premise of a media company built on trust rather than partisanship was [...] a fantasy [...] I'll continue to lead this incredible [TheFP] community [...] remaining CEO and editor-in-chief. But [...] As of today, I am editor-in-chief ofCBS News [...] What does this mean for CBS News? It means a redoubled commitment to great journalism. It means building on a storied legacy—and bringing that historic newsroom into 2025 and beyond. Most of all, it means working tirelessly to make sure CBS News is the most trusted news organization in the world.
We would not be doing this if we did not believe inDavid Ellison, and the entire leadership team who took over Paramount this summer. [...]
^ab"BMW Oracle wins America's Cup".ESPN. February 14, 2010.Archived from the original on February 17, 2010. RetrievedFebruary 15, 2010.Ellison and Kostecki were the only Americans on BMW Oracle's crew for the clincher.
^Compare:"The Oracle of National ID Cards".Wired. October 27, 2001. Archived fromthe original on October 27, 2001.An article Ellison wrote forThe Wall Street Journal is more blunt: 'The government could phase in digital ID cards to replace existing Social Security cards and driver's licenses. These new IDs should be based on a uniform standard such as credit card technology, which is harder to counterfeit than existing government IDs....'
^"Larry Ellison Biography and Interview". 1997.Archived from the original on January 19, 2021. RetrievedFebruary 1, 2021.Academy members Larry Ellison, United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Breyer, and best-selling author Tom Clancy in a panel discussion during the 1997 American Academy of Achievement program in Baltimore, MD.
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