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CONTENTS

Ú Early life
Ú Education

Ú Career

Ú Beliefs

Ú Interests

Ú Philanthropy

Ú Future goals

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EARm mIFE

Ú mawrence Joseph "marry" Ellison was born in

August 17, 1944, in New ork city to Florence
Spellman.
Ú Father unknown.

Ú Adopted by millian Spellman Ellison and mouis

Ellison.

Ú Independent and rebellious and often clashed

with his adoptive father.
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EDUCATION

Ú Bright but inattentive student.

Ú Science student of the year at the University of

Illinois.
Ú meft the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign at the end of his second year.

Ú Attended the University of Chicago for one term.

Ú mearned the rudiments of computer programming
in Chicago.

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CAREER

Ú Moved to California in 1965.

Ú For 8 years, bounced from job to job.

Ú Technician for Fireman's Fund and Wells Fargo

bank.

Ú Programmer at Amdahl Corporation.

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CAREER

Ú Co-founded SDm in 1977.

Ú ´A Relational Model of Data for marge Shared

Data Banks" by Edgar F. ("Ted") Codd.

Ú Relational Software Inc.,

Ú RDBMS project for the CIA.

Ú Code name : Oracle

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Under Ellison's leadership, Oracle

became a pioneer in providing
business applications over the
Internet.

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ACQUISITIONS

Ú Oracle spent more than $25 billion in only three

years.
Ú Acquired 57 companies in 5 years.
Ú The first major acquisition was PeopleSoft.
Ú Acquired retail software developer Retek and
competitor Siebel Systems.
Ú Acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion.

Ú Oracle is now the world's largest business software

company.
M supplying all 100 of the Fortune Global 100.
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WEAmTH
in billions Ñealth over the years
$50 47
$45
$40
$35
$30 28
26 25
$25 23.5 21.5 22.5
$20 16.6 18.7 18.4
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$15
$10
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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QUOTES

Ú ´When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for

everyone telling you you're nutsµ

Ú ´The most important aspect of my personality, as far

as determining my success goes, has been my
questioning conventional wisdom, doubting the
experts and questioning authority. While that can be
very painful in relationships with your parents and
teachers, it's enormously useful in lifeµ

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INTERESTS

Ú ´I think after a certain amount I'm going to give

almost everything I have to charity. Because what else
can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try.
I've been tryingµ

Ú Cars
Ú Sailing

Ú Fighter jets

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PHImANTHROP

Ú Ellison is one of the 57 billionaires who has signed

"The Giving Pledge".

Ú The 2004 „orbes list

M Ellison had donated $151,092,103 in the preceding year
M 1% of his estimated personal wealth.
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FUTURE GOAmS

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REFERENCES

Ú http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marry_Ellison

Ú http://www.oracle.com/

Ú http://billionaires.forbes.com/topic/lawrence_ellison

Ú http://www.bonniepowell.com/ellison.html

Ú http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ell0bio-1
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