Larry Ellison was born in Bronx, NY on August 17, 1944 to a single mother. According to the article, “Larry Ellison Biography” on Bio, “When Ellison was just an infant, he was diagnosed with pneumonia, and his mother sent him to Chicago to be raised by her aunt and uncle, who in turn ended up adopting him.”
The article goes on to say that “in 1977, Ellison and two of his colleagues founded the Software Development Labs and soon had a contract to build a database-management system, in which they called Oracle,