Larry Ellison
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| Born | Lawrence Joseph Ellison August 17, 1944 New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | US |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,University of Chicago |
| Children | David Ellison,Megan Ellison |
| Spouses | Adda Quinn,Nancy Wheeler Jenkins,Barbara Boothe,Melanie Craft,Nikita Kahn,Jolin Zhu |
| Interests | AI,surveillance,cancer vaccine |
Lawrence "Larry" Joseph Ellison is the founder of the spooky database company Oracle.
CIA origins
Founded in May 1977, Oracle's first customer was the CIA, [1] where it was contracted to build a relational database. The firm's name came from a CIA project code-named "Oracle."[2]
NSA
Supportive of mass surveillance.[3] Ellison was critical of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, saying that "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection".[4]
AI universal surveillance
In September 2024, Ellison said Oracle was ready to become the technological backbone for applications to keep everyone "on their best behavior" through the use of constant real-time machine-learning-powered monitoring." With these systems, "the police will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching and recording everything that's going on," Ellison told analysts. He described police body cameras that were constantly on, with no ability for officers to disable the feed to Oracle. Even requesting privacy for a bathroom break or a meal only meant sections of recording would require a subpoena to view - not that the video feed was ever stopped. AI would be trained to monitor officer feeds for anything untoward. "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting," Ellison added.[5]
Mystery night planes
Ellison is a licensed pilot who has owned several aircraft.[6] He was cited by the city of San Jose, California, for violating its limits on late-night takeoffs and landings from San Jose Mineta International Airport by planes weighing more than 75,000 pounds (34,019 kg).[7]
Ellison also owns at least two military jets: the Italian training aircraft SIAI-Marchetti S.211, and a decommissioned Soviet fighter MiG-29, which the US government has refused him permission to import.[6]
mRNA jabs
During a January 2025 meeting at the White House with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump, Ellison touted the impact AI has had on health care. He specifically called out cancer detection, treatment and cancer vaccines. Ellison claimed using AI, a messenger RNA-based jab could be produced robotically in just 48 hours.[8]
Island owner
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Ellison owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lāna'i
Israeli military
At a November 2014 Friends of the IDF gala in Beverly Hills, he donated $9 million, making him the event's largest donor. "The renewal of the Jewish state is something that I think touches all of us. For 2,000 years we were a stateless people. And now we have a country of our own, defended by all the brave men and women of the IDF. So anything we can do to support them, who devote their lives for preserving the state of Israel, keeping the people safe, and allowing our state to continue...I have been to Israel. I have been to the border. I have spent time [with] the people who govern the state of Israel. And I feel a deep emotional connection to the state of Israel and the Israeli people...We have two CEOs at Oracle. One's name is Safra Catz, and she was born in Israel. So again, we love the country of Israel and will do everything we can to support the country of Israel..."[9][10]
At another Friends of the IDF gala in Nov 2017, Ellison donated $16.6 million, reported at the time to be the largest single gift in the organization's history.[11]
TikTok
Oracle is expected[When?] to be among the companies that will buy TikTok’s US business from Chinese parent company ByteDance. Signing an executive order on 25 September 2025, President Trump said that Oracle and Ellison would play a big role in managing the app, while conservative media mogul (and suspected CIA associate) Rupert Murdoch and computer billionaire Michael Dell would sit on the board.[12]
The A.I. infrastructure provider Oracle reached a $300 billion deal with OpenAI, purchasing computing power over about five years in one of the largest cloud contracts ever signed.[13]
References
- ↑ https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oracle-s-coziness-with-government-goes-back-to-2820370.php
- ↑ https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238
- ↑ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141101202719/https://www.techinasia.com/orcales-larry-ellison-data-privacy-working-japan/
- ↑ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/oracle-ibm-ellison-ampex-sdl-billionaire/11/18/2009/id/25369
- ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/16/MNW222177.DTL
- ↑ https://www.investors.com/news/technology/moderna-stock-larry-ellison-ai-mrna-medicines-cancer-vaccines/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141114062523/http://www.timesofisrael.com/hollywood-gala-raises-a-record-33-million-for-idf/
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hilzfuld_larry-ellison-donates-166-million-to-the-activity-7267766338293481472-Fwes
- ↑ https://www.jta.org/2017/11/05/news-opinion/united-states/record-53-8-million-raised-for-idf-soldiers-at-beverly-hills-gala
- ↑ "Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media"
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/business/openai-oracle-sign-300-billion-computing-deal-among-biggest-in-history-ff27c8fe