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Sunday Summary | Larry Ellison Becomes World’s Richest Man & AI Billionaires Redefine Wealth
Discover how AI founders, luxury supercars, and record-breaking yachts are shaping the billionaire era.
Billionaire Harbour
October 26, 2025
Sunday Summary | Larry Ellison Becomes World’s Richest Man & AI Billionaires Redefine Wealth
Dear Navigator,
Welcome aboard this week’s Sunday Summary — your private update on how wealth, AI, and luxury are reshaping the world.
From billionaires reshuffling ranks to record-breaking yachts and collector cars becoming blue-chip assets, this is where today’s elite are setting their course.
1. Larry Ellison Becomes the World’s Richest Man:
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has officially become the world’s richest person, surpassing Elon Musk and Bernard Arnault with an estimated net worth of $393 billion.
Oracle’s share price has surged nearly 97 % in 2025, driven by massive AI-infrastructure and cloud-computing contracts worth more than $455 billion.
Ellison’s ascent signals a new era — where the biggest fortunes no longer come from social platforms or fashion, but from the unseen infrastructure powering the world’s AI systems.
2. The New Billionaire Wave — AI Founders Take the Stage:
The billionaire map is expanding fast. There are now more than 3,000 billionaires controlling $16 trillion in wealth, with an accelerating rise of AI-driven fortunes.
Among them: Michael Intrator, co-founder & CEO of CoreWeave, has reached a $6 billion net worth building the AI-cloud company that powers OpenAI and NVIDIA partnerships.
From AI-infrastructure to tool builders, this new class of entrepreneurs shows that wealth creation in 2025 is powered by innovation, data and scale — not old-money industries.
3. Supercars as Assets — The Collector Gold Rush:
A collection of 42 ultra-rare supercars, including Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta, Bugatti Divo, and Pagani Huayra BC, is heading to a private auction in Zurich.
At this year’s Monterey Car Week, a 2020 Bugatti Divo fetched $8.6 million, and a Ferrari 250 LM Scaglietti sold for $20 million — proving that hypercars now rival fine art in investment returns.
Collectors are treating these machines like financial instruments — scarcity, brand heritage, and design have turned them into rolling stores of value.
4. Yachts of the Year — Floating Empires Take Over:
2025 marks a record year for superyacht deliveries. Ten vessels over 100 metres are joining the seas, including:
• “Pi” by Feadship (100 m) — a masterpiece of Dutch engineering, delivered this summer.
• “Shackleton” (107 m) — a global explorer yacht built for extreme voyages.
• “Koru” (127 m) — owned by Jeff Bezos, still one of the largest private sailing yachts ever built.
For billionaires, yachts have become more than pleasure — they’re mobile headquarters, privacy havens and symbols of territory on water.
5. Tech Meets Luxury — The Oceanco Acquisition:
Valve Corporation founder Gabe Newell has acquired Dutch shipbuilder Oceanco, the yard behind Jeff Bezos’ Koru and Steven Spielberg’s Seven Seas.
This move blends tech wealth with luxury manufacturing — a powerful signal of how digital fortunes are converting into real-world infrastructure.
As AI and tech redefine industries, billionaires are translating their digital success into tangible luxury empires — yachts, estates, and private aircraft built to last decades.
Charting the Waters Ahead:
Each of these stories reveals a simple truth — the future belongs to those who build systems that scale and then anchor that wealth into timeless luxury.
Keep your eyes on the currents of AI and infrastructure — they’re creating the billionaires and brands that will define the next decade.
To your continued ascent,
Captain, Billionaire Harbour ⚓️