Ellison vs Brin

Oracle and Alphabet (Google).

The differences

Forbes puts Sergey Brin about $81.5B ahead of Larry Ellison.Forbes figures from date not stated and 9 Oct 2026.
Both started the company their money comes from.
Larry Ellison is about 29 years older than Sergey Brin.
Larry Ellison has signed the Giving Pledge; Sergey Brin has not.

Put someone else on either side

Ellison

Brin

Net worth, Forbes: $184BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $265BForbes, date not stated
Net worth, Bloomberg: $192BBloomberg, 9 Oct 2026; $271BBloomberg, 16 Oct 2026
Forbes rank: No. 8Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026; No. 5Real-Time list, 30 Sep 2026
Billionaire since: 1993Forbes: 'in 1993 Forbes first named Ellison a billionaire'; 2004First year on Forbes' billionaires list: the Los Angeles Times reported Brin and Page 'making their debut on the list' in February 2004

How it started: Co-founded itOracle's bio says he founded the company in 1977; Bloomberg says he founded it with two partners; Co-founded itFormed Google with Larry Page in 1998
Main source: Oracle stockBloomberg: 'The majority of Larry Ellison's fortune is derived from a stake in US software maker Oracle'; Alphabet (Google) stockBloomberg: 'The majority of Sergey Brin's fortune is derived from a stake in Alphabet'; Bloomberg also counts $27.9 billion in cash
Companies: OracleOracle: Executive chair and CTO (since September 2014); Alphabet (Google)Alphabet (Google): Co-founder, director and Executive Committee member
Biggest stake: Oracle38.2% owned; Alphabet (Google)6% owned

Born: 17 Aug 1944New York City, United States; 21 Aug 1973Moscow, Russia
Country: United StatesLives in Manalapan, Florida, United States; United StatesLives in Los Altos, California, United States
Education: Left university without a degreeLeft the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign without a degree; Graduate degreeBS in mathematics and computer science, University of Maryland, College Park; MS in computer science, Stanford University
Parents: Born to Florence Spellman, a 19-year-old single mother, and adopted by her aunt and uncle, Lillian and Louis Ellison, who raised him in Chicago; His father, Michael Brin, was a mathematician and economist; his mother, Eugenia Brin, a NASA scientistCNN; Forbes says the family left Russia because of antisemitism

Giving Pledge: Signed in 2010; Not a signer
Foundation: Larry Ellison Foundation; Sergey Brin Family Foundation
Lifetime giving: $0.5BForbes, undefined undefined 2014. Forbes' 2014 America's Top Givers figure ($507 million lifetime), reported in 2016; no newer estimate cited; $3.9BForbes, 6 Feb 2025. Forbes' estimate of lifetime charitable giving; more than $1.5 billion of it to Parkinson's research

Role now: Runs the companyExecutive chair and chief technology officer of Oracle; On the boardAlphabet co-founder, director and member of its Executive Committee
Successor: Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, co-CEOs since September 2025Named CEOs under Oracle's succession planning; no successor is named for his executive chair and CTO roles, and no family member is an Oracle executive officer; Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO since December 2019Brin left the Alphabet presidency then; Alphabet reports no family relationships among its directors or executive officers
Public office: Member, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)2026-; Member, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)2026-
Legal record: 2005: San Mateo County Superior CourtA judge approved his settlement of a shareholder suit over Oracle stock sales in 2001: he agreed to donate $100 million to charity in Oracle's name and pay $22 million in attorneys' fees, while denying wrongdoing.; None found