March 3, 2015
Hawaii billionaire Pierre Omidyar's ranking slips on Forbes list, Larry Ellison still No. 5
Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder who lives in Honolulu, saw his ranking on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest people slip this year, while Larry Ellison, the billionaire executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp. who owns the island of Lanai in Hawaii, held on to his No. 5 spot.
Ellison’s net worth rose to $54.3 billion this year, from $48 billion in 2014, placing him behind only Microsoft’s Bill Gates, still the richest person in the world with a fortune of $79.2…