--- description: Find out why Larry Ellison is one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. title: Larry Ellison: The 100 Most Influential People of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb723915c299314/698a559ed07533237ae70aa2/time-100-2024-larry-ellison.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 17, 2024 # Larry Ellison by Tony Blair  SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 16: Oracle chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address during the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld on September 16, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Oracle chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison kicked off the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld with a keynote address. The annual convention runs through September 19\. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 16: Oracle chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address during the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld on September 16, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Oracle chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison kicked off the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld with a keynote address. The annual convention runs through September 19\. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin Sullivan—Getty Images How Larry Ellison developed Oracle is a story that starts in 1977, full of adventurous bets that most people thought, wrongly, he would lose. Decades later, Oracle is the custodian of a staggering portion of the globe’s data. He did it once. He did it twice. Roughly 10 years ago, he stepped down as CEO. Business was steady, though not spectacular, and Oracle risked losing its luster. Larry reinvigorated his role as Oracle’s chief technology officer and literally rebuilt the company with cloud at its core and [AI](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/ "undefined") heavily embedded, branching out into data centers and health care. The results are spectacular. Now he’s working on how applying technology can solve problems for some of the most disadvantaged communities and countries, where we work together on delivering transformative change. Larry has the mind of an engineer, the curiosity of a thousand cats, and the humility to keep learning—which is the chief characteristic of the true changemaker. _Blair is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and founder of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which has partnered with Ellison’s philanthropic foundation_ _Order your copy of the 2024 TIME100 issue_ [_here_](https://magazineshop.us/TIME%5F100 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964931/larry-ellison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964931/larry-ellison/"},"headline":"Larry Ellison","datePublished":"2024-04-17T11:04:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:29:18.732Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964931/larry-ellison/","keywords":["TIME100","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","2024TIME100","T100Titans2024"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb723915c299314/698a559ed07533237ae70aa2/time-100-2024-larry-ellison.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cb723915c299314/698a559ed07533237ae70aa2/time-100-2024-larry-ellison.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964931/larry-ellison/","name":"Larry Ellison"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See Everyone on the TIME100 2024 list","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/73p9kgIN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-04-17T11:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/73p9kgIN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964931/larry-ellison/","duration":"PT1M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964931/larry-ellison/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```