This is The Guardian.
Today, the billionaire father and son buying up the American media.
Who's the smartest guy you've ever met?
You hang out with some brilliant people.
What's a CEO you look at other than yourself?
What CEO do you say, damn, that guy's good?
Larry Ellison's very smart.
So I'll say Larry Ellison's one of the smartest people.
You know that voice.
It's Elon Musk, of course.
He 's talking about Larry Ellison, a tech entrepreneur who at one point last year surpassed him
as the world's richest man thanks to an AI-driven boom in the stock price of his software company, Oracle.
At 81 years old, you might expect Larry to want to put his feet up,
possibly on Lanai, the Hawaiian island he snapped up for $300 million back in 2012.
He could be relaxing there with his sixth wife, Jolin, who is 47 years his junior.
But retirement isn't Larry's style.
If you do everything everyone else does in business, you're going to lose.
The only way to get ahead.
To really get ahead is to be different.
Instead, he has decided to become a media mogul.