Larry Ellison said he would provide an ‘irrevocable personal guarantee’ for the entire equity of Paramount’s offer - Toru Yamanaka/AFP or licensors The billionaire founder of Oracle has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of $40bn (£31bn) in an effort to revive Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Larry Ellison, an ally of Donald Trump and one of the world’s richest men, said he would provide an “irrevocable personal guarantee” for the entire equity of Paramount’s$108bn offer. Paramoun ...