① It is reported that Oracle's founder Larry Ellison has entered his fifth marriage. His new wife was born in 1991; ② Ellison was born in 1944 and currently serves as Oracle's CTO and Chairman of the Board, with an estimated net worth of 198 billion USD.
According to reports from Cai Lian She on December 12 (Editor: Qin Jiahe), the world's fourth richest man, Oracle's founder Larry Ellison, has recently entered into his fifth marriage. The 80-year-old technology billionaire's new wife was born in 1991 and is only 33 years old.
Previously, Champions Circle, the sponsor of the University of Michigan's football team, announced that they had recruited the top-ranked star quarterback in the USA, and subsequently released a statement expressing gratitude to Ellison.
In the statement, Champions Circle's chairman Nate Forbes wrote, "I would like to personally thank Larry and his wife Jolin, who played a significant role in achieving this goal by providing valuable guidance and financial resources to Champions Circle."
Champions Circle's gratitude statement
Larry and Jolin had not publicly announced their marriage until Champions Circle's statement revealed it. According to further media investigation, Jolin mentioned in the statement is a 33-year-old also known as Keren Zhu. From the photos revealed by the media, Jolin may be of Chinese descent.
Note: A photo of the two published by Yahoo.
She is an alumnus of the University of Michigan and was awarded a Bachelor's degree in International Studies in 2012. Reports indicate that she is associated with Ellison's business investment projects. Records show that there is a property under Ellison's Octopus Holdings, which mentions Keren Zhu's name.
Apart from that, Jolin has hardly any significant traces online.
Previously, Ellison has been married four times.
From 1967 to 1974, Ellison experienced his first marriage, then remarried in 1977, only to get divorced a year later. In 1983, he married the company's former receptionist Barbara Boothe and divorced in 1986. In 2003, Ellison married novelist Melanie Craft, but they divorced seven years later.
Larry Ellison
Ellison is the founder of Oracle. He served as CEO of Oracle from 1977 to 2014 and currently holds the positions of CTO and Executive Chairman.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he is currently the fourth richest person in the world, with a net worth of 198 billion dollars. Ellison is also a major investor in Tesla and Salesforce and is reported to have even had a seat on Apple's Board of Directors.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index, updated December 12.
Ellison's full name is Lawrence Joseph Ellison, and he was born in 1944 in a single-parent family in New York, USA. He spent a brief period in college but dropped out after his adoptive mother's death.
In 1966, 22-year-old Ellison moved to Berkeley, California—near what would later become Silicon Valley—taking on one job after another, including companies like Wells Fargo & Co and Amdahl, during which he learned computer and programming skills.
In 1977, inspired by the theory of relational databases from IBM computer scientist Edgar F. Codd, Ellison and his partners founded the company Software Development Laboratories. In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software, and in 1982, it officially changed its name to Oracle Systems Corp., which means Oracle.
In 1986, Oracle went public with an initial offering price of $15 per share, raising $55 million. The company quickly grew and expanded, and Ellison became a billionaire at the age of 49.
In 2023, Oracle invested in Cohere, a competitor of OpenAI, using its technology to develop generative AI and provide specialized training services for large language models to its clients. According to Fortune, due to the gold rush in generative AI, Oracle's stock price soared, and Ellison's personal wealth continued to increase.
His business success led Ellison to indulge in expensive hobbies: luxury watches, yachts, and real estate.
Ellison has a large collection of Richard Mille watches, with each priced from six figures to millions of dollars. He is also passionate about yacht racing and has funded the BMW Oracle racing team. In 2009, he acquired the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament for $0.1 billion. Furthermore, Ellison has billions in Real Estate Investment, owning Property in Newport, Rhode Island, Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations.
Ellison also has a friendly relationship with Trump.
During this year's election, Ellison publicly expressed his support for Trump, stating, "I don’t think he is the devil — I support him and hope he does well." He maintained a close relationship with him during Trump's previous term. After the executive order mandating ByteDance to divest its businesses in the US, Trump expressed support for Oracle's acquisition of TikTok, calling Oracle a "great company."