Berkshire Hathaway
also referred to as: berkshire
5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2017 by Josh Wolfe · said 21 times in 15 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (6), Will Quist (2), Chamath Palihapitiya (2), Andrew Wilkinson (2), Taavet Hinrikus (1), Stewart Butterfield (1), Sheel Mohnot (1), Rory O'Driscoll (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?
- Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
- 20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- 20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- 20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Berkshire Hathaway, oldest first
May 10, 2017
Jun 22, 2020 neutral
Wilkinson: No tech holding company had truly copied Berkshire Hathaway's decentralized model
“Anyone that's done this for tech had built kind of a synergized conglomerate like GE, where everything's interdependent, but nobody had truly copied the Berkshire model of running all these distributed businesses and leaving them to do their thing.”
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Palihapitiya designed Social Capital to combine Berkshire, Koch, and Red Cross
“I wanted to build a kind of organization that, you know, in some ways was a mixture between Berkshire with respect to its Capital and capitalism philosophy. The developments that are like Koch Industries with respect to its view on amalgamation and building co…”
Oct 13, 2022 positive
Söderström: Evaluating decisions across three distinct models reduces strategic error
“One way to try to avoid it that, you know, comes from sort of Berkshire Hathaway and how they think about the world is you should use at least three models with different dimensions. If they all agree, chances that you're completely wrong are much lower.”