Larry Ellison's $190 Billion Bet on AI and Media Empire
Eric Guyer
1 min read
March 2026
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Larry Ellison has been the celebrity of my career. His bluster has always been fun to watch in a nerdy sort of way, given the esoteric nature of enterprise software. But in the past 12 months, he has personally guaranteed over $40 billion to win a media empire, while simultaneously steering Oracle through more than $150 billion in debt and capital commitments to build the AI infrastructure backbone of the next decade. And don't forget TikTok.
I guess you can't take it with you, right?
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