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  • There's a big difference between keeping all of your ownership and giving it to the son and paying a huge salary and making him non-executive chairman while giving away most of your wealth.
    by jjallen
  • To anyone who owns BRK-B shares (or BRK-A if you have that kind of money), over the next decade your money will likely grow on par with if not at a slightly higher rate than keeping it in an S&P 500 Index fund. Regardless of board or management changes, BRK will stay a better long term bet than an index fund. Both options have similar amounts of risk.
    by Zaraif13
  • Many people do not know this but he still holds the stock that he first bought as a 13y old. It is now worth 8+ figures!
    by BennyBallTC
  • Best wishes and all. But given Berkshire's scale, and the son's age (71), questions about the next succession plan seem appropriate.

    Also, since the NYT says nothing else about the son: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Graham_Buffett In context, his recent involvement in local politics seems rather odd.

    by bell-cot
  • Sat on a couple of boards and the non exec chair mostly just guards the culture and can fire the CEO. Abel runs the business. That's a very different job from Howard's.
    by hn9zmdcaou
  • Buffett has been planning this since at least 2011:

    CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Warren Buffett has told the CBS News program "60 Minutes" that after he dies, he wants his son to become non-executive chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Howard Buffett, a farmer with no college degree, would be a good successor, the elder Buffett said, because he understands the values of the company.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-wants-farmer...

    by keiferski
  • I guess Warren’s quote only applies to other people, not him. "It’s like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the eldest sons of the gold-medal winners in the 2000 Olympics." (https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/14/us/dozens-of-rich-america...)
    by dugmartin
  • https://archive.ph/E24O9
    by rib3ye

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