Larry Ellison grew up in Chicago and learned at age 12 that he had been adopted, a detail the film treats as an early spark for his drive to prove himself. It traces his path from a middling student to a programmer at Ampex, where he worked on a database project for the CIA, an assignment that led directly to founding Oracle in 1977. Archival material and interviews cover the company's near-collapse in the early 1990s after a flawed sales strategy nearly bankrupted it, and how Ellison rebuilt it into infrastructure much of the world's data now runs on. The film lingers on how he spends the fortune that followed: a Japanese-style estate reported at $200 million and $400 million spent to bring the America's Cup back to American shores after a fifteen-year absence. Bloomberg's Game Changers frames him as the highest-paid executive of the past decade, with $1.84 billion in total compensation, and lets his taste for competition explain both the business and the boat racing.