{"id":1168,"date":"2025-08-02T23:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2025-08-02T23:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:20:54","slug":"friend-of-elon-musk-overtakes-jeff-bezos-and-mark-zuckerberg-as-second-richest-person-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Friend of Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg as second richest person on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has become the world\u2019s second-richest person, surpassing Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, thanks to a massive surge in his company\u2019s stock value. Oracle\u2019s shares jumped 13% on June 12 and another 7% on June 13, reaching a record $215 per share. This boost increased Ellison\u2019s net worth by over $40 billion, bringing it to $254.6 billion, according to Forbes. Only his friend Elon Musk, with a net worth of $412.9 billion, ranks above him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stock rise followed Oracle\u2019s strong earnings report on June 11, which revealed higher-than-expected profits. CEO Safra Catz predicted even better performance in FY26, with cloud revenue growth potentially exceeding 40%. Ellison highlighted a 115% increase in MultiCloud database revenue and announced plans to build 47 new data centers. Analysts, like Deutsche Bank\u2019s Brad Zelnick, emphasized Oracle\u2019s growing influence in cloud computing, signaling a bright future for the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has become the world\u2019s second-richest person, surpassing Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, thanks to a massive surge in his company\u2019s stock value. Oracle\u2019s shares jumped 13% on June 12 and another 7% on June 13, reaching a record $215 per share. This boost increased Ellison\u2019s net worth by over $40 billion,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}