Let's Hear From Buffett's Big, Happy Berkshire Family
Giving his managers more of the spotlight would be a logical next step in what is already happening within the company.
It’s not a solo gig.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Warren Buffett has started allowing his successor candidates a higher profile internally at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Now, he needs to do so publicly.
One month from Saturday, a Coca-Cola-sipping Buffett will take the stage at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting alongside his right-hand man, Charlie Munger, and a box of See’s peanut brittle. Between bites, they’ll take questions from an audience of some 40,000 investors and adoring fans, who travel from all over the world to Omaha, Nebraska, to hear the billionaires’ business and investing wisdom. That’s the routine, as it’s been for decades. And I mean decades: Here’s the two of them doing exactly that in 1998, when Buffett was just 67 years old and Munger 74.