Notes from https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/berkshire-hathaway-warren-buffett-charlie-munger-meeting-5b0d1b77

• Charlie's rapier wit
• investing icons like Mario Gabelliand Himalaya’s Li Lu
• Images of famous twosomes over the years - Hope and Crosby, Laurel and Hardy, Laverne and Shirley, even Beavis and Butt-Head
• his voice sounding weaker and raspier
• Berkshire director Ron Olson
• actor Bill Murray
• parent company of Squishmallow - Jazwares
• See’s, CEO Pat Egan
• Dan Sheridan, the new CEO of Brooks
• Berkshire director Charlotte Guyman

Notes from https://www.ft.com/content/809c661a-b9cb-476b-8c63-51c9b2457f79

• the contenders to replace Jain include Peter Eastwood, who runs the fast-growing Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance unit, and Charlie Shamieh, chair of Gen Re, a reinsurer Berkshire acquired in 1998. Todd Combs, one of Buffett’s two investment deputies and who became chief executive of Geico in 2019

2024 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting - https://www.youtube.com/live/X3wLdzddRtI?feature=shared

• John Rogers, Ariel investments chairman & co-CEO
• Book: Poor Charlie's Almanac, 4th edition
• Q1 2024 operating earnings = \$11,222 mln
• Q1 2023 operating earnings = \$ 8,065 mln
• Operating earnings history
  • 2019 - \$23,972 mln
  • 2020 - \$21,922 mln
  • 2021 - \$27,597 mln
  • 2022 - \$30,853 mln
  • 2023 - \$37,350 mln
• How do you think about the role of technological advances especially generative AI on more traditional industries?
• Ajit Jain: Climate change like inflation, done right can be a friend to the risk bearer.
• Healthcare is 17-18% of GDP
• NFM CEO
• Helzberg Diamonds CEO
• Lubrizol CEO
• See's candies CEO
• Walton family