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, one of 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 was 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, a big one, huge,

the kind that probably makes Rupert Murdoch feel insecure.

Unlike Murdoch, Larry likes his children to get involved in the family business. Meet David, his eldest son.

And we want to be in the truth business, we want to be in the trust business, and that's not going to change.

David is a film fanatic who made his first movie, aged just 23,

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