Larry Ellison is the CEO and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, which he founded in 1977. As CEO, he has grown Oracle to employ over 55,000 employees and become a major database software company headquartered in San Francisco, with competitors including SAP and Microsoft. Ellison lives in a lavish earthquake-proof home in Woodside, California modeled after Japanese architecture, demonstrating his success in leading Oracle to strong financial performance over the past years.