In 1978, Nancy Wheeler Ellison agreed to walk away from her marriage to Larry Ellison with just $500, unknowingly giving up her chance to hold a stake in the tiny software company he was building.

That company became Oracle, one of the most powerful software and cloud firms in the world, and Ellison has since amassed a personal fortune of around $393 billion, making him the richest person alive today.

Her decision is now remembered as one of the most extraordinary missed fortunes in history, because the settlement that seemed ordinary at the time ultimately meant passing on tens of billions of dollars in potential wealth.

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