{"id":14162,"date":"2026-03-27T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14162"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:42:17","slug":"king-larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/27\/king-larry\/","title":{"rendered":"King Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/03\/larry-ellison-fortune-stargate-tiktok-paramount-wbd-merger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from OBSERVER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Larry Ellison is Quietly Shaping the Future of A.I., Social Media and Hollywood<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Oracle&#8217;s Larry Ellison wields $190 billion to reshape A.I. infrastructure, safeguard TikTok U.S. and secure a $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/georgia-fearn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia Fearn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2194584937.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"Larry Ellison speaks at the White House launch of Stargate, the AI infrastructure venture backed by Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank, on Jan. 21, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-1635106\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Larry Ellison\u2019s influence extends from Oracle\u2019s A.I. dominance to Hollywood\u2019s largest merger.\u00a0Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/larry-ellison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larry Ellison<\/a>\u00a0stepped down as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/company\/oracle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oracle<\/a>\u2019s CEO more than a decade ago. Yet the company\u2019s co-founder, now executive chair and chief technology officer\u2014with an estimated net worth of $190 billion\u2014remains deeply involved in Oracle\u2019s biggest moves. His influence ripples far beyond enterprise software, extending from A.I. infrastructure and social media to Hollywood. Ellison is a key backer in the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2025\/01\/trumps-500b-stargate-ai-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stargate project<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2025\/12\/tiktok-sign-deal-us-investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. takeover of TikTok<\/a>\u00a0and the $110 billion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/company\/warner-bros-discovery\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/02\/david-ellison-raises-paramounts-wbd-offer-washington-playbook\/\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/02\/david-ellison-raises-paramounts-wbd-offer-washington-playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquisition<\/a>\u00a0led by his son,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/david-ellison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Ellison<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/03\/larry-ellison-fortune-stargate-tiktok-paramount-wbd-merger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at OBSERVER<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from OBSERVER How Larry Ellison is Quietly Shaping the Future of A.I., Social Media and Hollywood Oracle&#8217;s Larry Ellison wields $190 billion to reshape A.I. infrastructure, safeguard TikTok U.S. and secure a $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal. By\u00a0Georgia Fearn Larry Ellison\u00a0stepped down as\u00a0Oracle\u2019s CEO more than a decade ago. Yet the company\u2019s co-founder, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14163,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions\/14163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}