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Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway
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- 0:00Warren Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway
- 0:01because its boss tried to chisel him.
- 0:03Later he called it the dumbest stock he
- 0:04ever bought. Meet Warren Buffett who ran
- 0:06Berkshire for 60 years. In 1964,
- 0:09Berkshire was a struggling textile mill.
- 0:10Its boss, Seabury Stanton, agreed to buy
- 0:13back Buffett's shares at 11.50 a share.
- 0:15Then the offer came in at 11 and 3/8.
- 0:17Buffett was angry, so he bought control
- 0:19of the company and Stanton lost his job.
- 0:21The mill kept losing money, so Buffett
- 0:23used it as a shell. In 1967, he bought
- 0:26an insurance company. Insurers collect
- 0:28premiums before they pay claims. Buffett
- 0:29invested that money, the float, in whole
- 0:31companies. GEICO, See's Candies, Dairy
- 0:34Queen, BNSF Railway, plus big stakes in
- 0:36Coca-Cola and Apple. Last year Berkshire
- 0:39earned 44.5 billion dollars from its
- 0:41businesses and sat on 373
- 0:44billion dollars in cash. In September,
- 0:46he stepped down as chairman. The revenge
- 0:48purchase became a trillion-dollar
- 0:49company.
- 0:51>> [music]
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