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To understand financial firms you need to know what works better - and Berkshire Hathaway works a whole lot better.

Berkshire Hathaway is a totally diferent type of company (conglomerate ) to an advertising company.

The greatest financial mind of our time built Berkshire Hathaway to $350B over 50 years.

As same as there is nobody in Berkshire Hathaway who is simultaneously deciding on the candy recipies and on the insurance policies.

It seems like the most obvious place for them to hold an event such as this (excluding perhaps the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting).

Your quote might be correct, but I think Berkshire Hathaway is anything but a boring bank.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s NV Energy agreed to pay 3.87 cents a kilowatt-hour...

This is what Warren Buffett does with Berkshire Hathaway -- he buys profitable, well-run companies and usually keeps the former owners on to continue operating them.

That'll take some Constitutional doing, naturally.) Assuming that it remains, why should Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation or Bloomberg's Bloomberg have rights that Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway doesn't?

I know this wouldn't work at a huge company but I'm fairly certain I read about Berkshire Hathaway operating like this at the BU/Department level.

The step up from that is into Berkshire Hathaway / private equity territory where you just buy companies, or very significant stakes and run them as you want to.

A stock certificate for one share of Berkshire Hathaway A shares, is as legitimate a value as the cash in your pocket or any other asset you could possibly name.

The horizon for Berkshire Hathaway is much longer; Munger says their preferred holding period is "forever".

“I wouldn’t give much credence to those comments,” said James Shanahan, an analyst with Edward Jones who follows Berkshire Hathaway.

Page said he looks to Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the insurance-focused conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, as a model for how to run a large, complex company, [...] " I recall hearing a guest on the a16z podcast say something along the lines of 'high-growth tech companies eventually become big boring banks,' but I can't remember who said it.

The conglomerate structure is kept by choice in the case of Berkshire Hathaway.

Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway) -- doesn't point to a single article, but does very much recommend reading as a lifestyle choice that will give you an advantage.

Perhaps the outside observer's last name is Hathaway?