How Oracle’s Larry Ellison went from Silicon Valley icon to building world’s biggest media empire

For decades, Larry Ellison was Silicon Valley’s enfant terrible, the swaggering Oracle co-founder who raced yachts, built mansions inspired by Japanese emperors, and dated as flamboyantly as he bought real estate. Oracle, the database company that made him one of the world’s richest men, was rarely the star of the show. Ellison was. Now, at 80, Ellison has traded in that Playboy image for something even more audacious: building one of the largest media empires on the planet.