Tight race for world’s richest person

Oracle co-founder, Larry Ellison, briefly became the world’s
richest person knocking Elon Musk off the top spot,
after shares in his tech giant skyrocketed

WHERE THEIR FORTUNES RESIDE ($billions)

Larry Ellison
$383bn

Elon Musk
$384bn

CASH
$32.8

ORACLE
$335.0

TESLA
$15.7

SPACEX
$136.0

BORING CO.
$3.3

NEURALINK
$3.4

X AI
$23.4

TESLA
$143.0

OTHER
$23.2

87% of Ellison’s fortune comes
from his stake in Oracle

TWO BIGGEST PLAYERS IN BILLIONAIRES INDEX ($billions)

Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep

500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100

2025

Elon Musk

SEP 11,
2024
$249

SEP 10, 2025
$384

Larry Ellison

SEP 11, 2024
$169

SEP 10, 2025
BRIEFLY HITS
$393
SETTLES AT
$383

Oracle share price soared more than 40% on announcing positive
outlook for cloud infrastructure business and artificial intelligence
dealings, propelled by growing demand for data centre infrastructure

Sources: BBC, CNN, Bloomberg
Pictures: Getty Images
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