Who Is Larry Ellison? The Internet Is Asking: Opinion Wrap

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• Oracle’s sudden climb.
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A strange byproduct of the Oracle rally is the slew of internet explainers that all ask some version of the same question: “Who is Oracle’s Larry Ellison, the man who briefly replaced Elon Musk as the world’s richest person?”

On one hand, the SEO-grab is not surprising. As Shuli Ren notes, Oracle — which is just a few years younger than Elon Musk — is “ancient” ...