Lawrence Joseph Spellman is a sickly child. Born in 1944 to a single 19-year-old, raised by an aunt and uncle. Later he will say: “I had all the unfavorable circumstances that it takes to be successful.” He doesn’t just succeed. Larry Ellison, the last name he gets from his foster father, is addicted to it. He wants to win. Always. He almost always succeeds. Ellison, 80, co-founder and still active in the software company Oracle, recently became the second richest man in the world, behind his friend Elon Musk.
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