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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 56:39 Shane Parrish A splash page with like, you know, four or five sentences on Berkshire Hathaway's website, I totally get it.
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:25 Shane Parrish We have mastering an instrument, learning a language, and building Berkshire Hathaway.
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 35:54 Shane Parrish At Berkshire Hathaway, there's a common injunction.
- ▶ 1:11:50 Shane Parrish When you see extreme outcomes, Berkshire Hathaway's success or New Coke disasters, cult conversions, corporate catastrophes, ask what combination of tendencies created this?
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 17:08 Ron Shaich In fact, somebody told me we actually beat Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 1:23:39 Shane Parrish Part of the reason that Berkshire was able to do that and Buffett was able to act is that 2 times in the scene
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 54:10 Shane Parrish According to Buffett's account, at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, he called this gift from the students an unlikely source that put Clayton Holmes on his radar. 8 times in the scene
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 0:20 unnamed speaker She is best known for working directly with Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, where she served as his financial assistant before becoming CEO of Pampered Chef, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Tracy Britt Cool I had been at Berkshire for about five years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:52 Tracy Britt Cool And so that's how I ultimately ended up at Berkshire. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:59 Shane Parrish Compare and contrast the framework at Berkshire and what you're doing that's different. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:51 Shane Parrish I've always, as an outsider to Berkshire, thought a lot of the success resulted from the fact that nobody could come in at a certain point in time and tell Buffett to do something different.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 46:31 Shane Parrish Bregg himself became a student and started attending Berkshire Hathaway meetings, often bringing his maritime friends along.
- ▶ 1:04:40 Shane Parrish Bragg himself became a student, attending Berkshire Hathaway meetings, studying other businesses, and today he manages his own multi-billion dollar portfolio.
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 1:31:50 Shane Parrish And the way that I met him, I was at a Berkshire Hathaway meeting, and I had went up to the, uh, the hotel, you know, naively, this is my first meeting ever, you know, I just show up, and I'm like, can I get a hotel room?
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:52 Shane Parrish The research for this episode comes mostly from women of Berkshire
- ▶ 25:31 Shane Parrish When Warren Buffett quipped at a Berkshire Hathaway meeting that he'd like to introduce Berkshire Hathaway's managers except Ms. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Shane Parrish Her son Louis and his family subsequently bought back 10%, making Berkshire's final purchase price about fifty-five million.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 32:27 Shane Parrish And then also like Berkshire Hathaway, you know, everybody's tried to replicate Berkshire Hathaway, but they can't. 2 times in the scene
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 20:23 Shane Parrish You can see how Singleton's model of running Teledyne influenced Berkshire Hathaway's approach. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:54 Shane Parrish Now, if you're listening to that, like me, it sounds a lot like Charlie Munger, who said there was no master plan at Berkshire. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:28 Shane Parrish This pivot was remarkably similar to what Warren Buffett was doing at Berkshire Hathaway around this exact same time, buying insurance companies and using the insurance float as a form of low-cost capital that could be invested for higher… 2 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 46:49 Bruce Flatt And, and look, look, that's Berkshire Hathaway. 4 times in the scene
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:05:46 Shane Parrish It's a hidden key to Berkshire Hathaway's success too. 3 times in the scene
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 30:49 Shane Parrish The blueprint Mellon created would later be refined by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger with Berkshire Hathaway.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 48:07 John Bragg And, you know, he gave up on, on Berkshire, which was the right thing, but he, he's, he's buying companies all over the world that are already cash flow positive and making money, and he can measure that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:26 John Bragg An article on the weekend, a contrarian view, but Buffett's maybe, Berkshire's not doing so well, but they compare it with Apple and Microsoft and some high flyers that have done extremely well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:10 Shane Parrish But like, look at today, they have three hundred billion in cash on the balance sheet. 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 29:41 Shane Parrish Berkshire Hathaway, for example, if you looked at their board of directors, I don't think they pass any of the, the sort of like standards that business schools would set for what an independent board looks like.
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 1:12:10 Shane Parrish When I was talking to Chris Davis, who's on the board of Berkshire,
- ▶ 2:04:19 Brent Beshore Where they are now, there's been like five seasons of Berkshire and where they are now bears zero resemblance to where they were in the early days where they were in the early days is where we are, where we like to play. 4 times in the scene
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 1:24 Shane Parrish Today, my guest is Christopher Davis, a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway and the Coca-Cola company, and the chairman of Davis Select Advisors, an independent investment management firm founded in 1969 that oversees… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:14 Shane Parrish You sit on the board of Berkshire Hathaway, which is probably the company that comes to mind when I think of
- ▶ 1:11:59 Christopher Davis Like benchmark them to the S and P with the same amount of leverage, you know, with all of that said, well, it seems to me in that world owning Berkshire,
- ▶ 1:15:13 Christopher Davis And of course, that's been part of what's created businesses like Berkshire and Markel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:02 Christopher Davis A best example of all is Berkshire. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25:07 Christopher Davis So, you know, and then of course, Coke and Berkshire, I mean, so that part's amazing.
- ▶ 2:29:11 Christopher Davis And of course I would expect that that was always the case at a place like Berkshire where there's so much candor.
- ▶ 2:35:11 Christopher Davis You know, Google would probably be, you know, 20%, and, you know, Berkshire would be 20%.
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 14:54 Tom Gaynor So I saw that and immediately I said, that's what Buffett did with Berkshire. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:18 Tom Gaynor So I bought the first share of Berkshire in 1990.
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 1:10:27 Shane Parrish And the reason is, so six eight one three one is the zip code for Berkshire Hathaway, which is Farnham Street. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 13:01 Shane Parrish Do you remember David Sokol, who used to work at Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffett?
#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
- ▶ 1:18:31 Shane Parrish Either be it through multiple voting shares or, uh, financially, like we have with Berkshire Hathaway, you can just sit on cash and you don't have to worry about activist investors.
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 16:37 Matt Mullenweg So I like to think of us as like Berkshire Hathaway with a common digital platform is definitely what we aspire to.
- ▶ 56:35 Matt Mullenweg And we've, we've shifted to the kind of this, this like digital Berkshire Hathaway.
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 40:37 Shane Parrish When I look back and I look at Berkshire Hathaway's like track record, 2 times in the scene
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 1:16:30 Shane Parrish This is like a dreamlike opportunity for them in some ways you could say with all that cash and prudent leverage and sort of the ability to take on multiple big elephants, if you will. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:16 Shane Parrish Walk me through how you see Berkshire Hathaway. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:52 Bill Ackman You know, think the utility, energy, uh, utility part of his operation, the railroad, you know, very durable, big, profitable businesses, and then businesses he's just collected and held onto over many, many years, some of which have, have…
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 53:46 Shane Parrish Like comparing Berkshire Hathaway, which has like 400,000 employees to Google, which I don't even know what they have, but it's nowhere near that.
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 18:24 Josh Wolfe It's the only board he's been on besides Berkshire and Microsoft.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 57:23 Adam Robinson All their hours, all their time, thinking about nothing but Starbucks stock, or Facebook, or Berkshire Hathaway, or gold, whatever it is, and they're professionals, and investing is a gladiatorial pit, and if you think that you can compete…
- ▶ 1:01:10 Shane Parrish Berkshire Hathaway. 2 times in the scene
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 1:08 Shane Parrish Shortly after this interview was recorded, he was named the CEO of the healthcare initiative between JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon.com,
#37 Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong
- ▶ 54:50 Annie Duke so I think I have a Berkshire Hathaway graph in the book of saying, look at Berkshire Hathaway over the last 40 years. 2 times in the scene
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 39:56 Patrick Collison You know, we are, I am, we are far from being, uh, the, the Apples or the Berkshires or whoever, you know, a multi-decade sort of track record of making good bets.
- ▶ 1:00:42 Patrick Collison Warren and Charlie at Berkshire and how the folks at Koch Industries are so into a kind of epistemology and structuring of doubt and accounting for biases and mechanisms for, for clarity of thinking, um, like to, to a very striking degree.
#23 Ray Dalio: Life Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire
- ▶ 1:03:45 Shane Parrish Brookshire Hathaway when he, he passes.
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 14:18 Sanjay Bakshi Annual reports on letters of Baksha Hathaway.
- ▶ 21:39 Sanjay Bakshi To be owned by Berkshire. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:53 Shane Parrish Omaha in part because you felt like somebody was always whispering in his ear and the assumption or, you know, reading between the lines there is that I think they're more conscious about how they set up not only their, um, structure of…
- ▶ 27:24 Sanjay Bakshi So here is a business, which is a fabulous business, which has created a wonderful cash flow, which has helped Berkshire become what it is today, but it loses money eight months in a year, which means there are several quarters when it is…
- ▶ 33:39 Sanjay Bakshi It's just that if you notice that, uh, you don't usually find, uh, a Berkshire Hathaway owning them.