September was life-changing for 81-year-old billionaire entrepreneur Larry Ellison and his family. After announcing that his flagship database software company, Oracle, had a backlog of orders amounting to nearly $100 billion on red-hot demand for artificial intelligence, as well as announcing several other multi-billion-dollar contracts with companies including OpenAI, Nvidia, and Meta, Ellison saw his fortune jump to an astronomic $393 billion, briefly surpassing Elon Musk for the title of