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Gates Elected to Berkshire Hathaway Board
by w1ld at 1:02 am EST, Dec 22, 2004 |
] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. the conglomerate
] run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, on Tuesday said it elected
] Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., to be a director.
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] Gates, co-founder and chairman of software giant Microsoft, is a friend
] and bridge partner of Buffett and a long-standing Berkshire shareholder. Any conspiracy theory comments on this news? |
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RE: Gates Elected to Berkshire Hathaway Board
by Decius at 1:37 am EST, Dec 22, 2004 |
w1ld wrote: ] Any conspiracy theory comments on this news? 1. What does Gates know about finance.
2. Buffet is opposed to stock options... ie he doesn't like engineers who get wealthy.
3. Still thinking of buying a share of BH... |
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RE: Gates Elected to Berkshire Hathaway Board
by Mike the Usurper at 6:19 pm EST, Dec 22, 2004 |
w1ld wrote:
] ] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. the
] conglomerate
] ] run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, on Tuesday said
] it elected
] ] Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., to be a director.
] ]
] ] Gates, co-founder and chairman of software giant Microsoft,
] is a friend
] ] and bridge partner of Buffett and a long-standing Berkshire
] shareholder.
]
] Any conspiracy theory comments on this news? He's among the few people who can actually afford the original BH preferred shares (which go for something like 35k each last I saw)? |
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RE: Gates Elected to Berkshire Hathaway Board
by w1ld at 8:32 pm EST, Dec 22, 2004 |
Mike the Usurper wrote:
] w1ld wrote:
] ] ] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. the
] ] conglomerate
] ] ] run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, on Tuesday
] said
] ] it elected
] ] ] Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., to be a director.
]
] ] ]
] ] ] Gates, co-founder and chairman of software giant
] Microsoft,
] ] is a friend
] ] ] and bridge partner of Buffett and a long-standing
] Berkshire
] ] shareholder.
] ]
] ] Any conspiracy theory comments on this news?
]
] He's among the few people who can actually afford the original
] BH preferred shares (which go for something like 35k each last
] I saw)? Agreed. BRK-A is now at $89k a share. Holy Crap!!!!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=brk-a |
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