Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and chief executive officer

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 of Oracle Corporation

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, one of the world's leading enterprise software

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 companies. As of 2011, he is the third wealthiest American

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 citizen, with an estimated worth of $33 billion.
Larry Ellison was born in the Bronx

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, New York City

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 to Florence Spellman, an unwed 19-year-old. Ellison's biological father was an Italian-American U.S. Air Force pilot, who was stationed abroad before Spellman realized that she had become pregnant by him.