Author and investor Adam Mead on Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A / $BRK.B, Warren Buffett, Abel | S08 E16
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Looks like we're live. This is Value After Hours. I'm Tobias Carlisle joined as always by my cohost, Jake Taylor. Special guest today following along from the Berkshire meeting. He's an expert on Berkshire Hathaway. It's Adam Mead, author of The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway. It's an absolute door stopper. How are you, Adam? Congrats. What a great book.
Thanks. Thanks. Great to be here, guys. Thanks for having me on.
Yeah. Welcome back.
Gents, I didn't make the meeting this weekend. So for someone like me who didn't go there, what were your impressions? First one without Warren as up on stage. What happened?
Let me let me do a quick little plug of Adam's book first before that just because I think this is important. I would I I got an MBA, and I would gladly trade that MBA away from and what I learned for the combination of taking Adam's book and you read that year because it's broken up chronologically into years. You read that chapter of that year, and then you go listen to the AGM. And so you get Adam providing the play by play narrative of or sorry, the numbers that are happening in real time, and then you listen to Charlie and Warren doing the the color commentary of what's happening. And it'
You kind. Thank you.
You're welcome. Well deserved.
What what were your impressions, Adam? What what, what did you think?
You know, I I had high expectations going in, and that was because I expected it to be a business meeting. I expected Greg to really get down to the numbers, and I expected him to deliver it. And, I mean, he met he met my high expectations. I I thought it was a great meeting. I mean, in terms of, you know, value per minute, I mean, it was probably the most informative meeting there was. And I thought it was a good balance of you know, we got to meet some new managers, get to hear from them. You know, Warren was there and had his part, including a, you know, AI spoof of him asking the first que
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