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Like many transplants trying to gain a foothold in L.A. s creative community, the duo embarked on a range of video projects that made use of the skills they’d learned (she’d studied photography, he’d studied marketing and theater) as well as some key insight Clark had gained after landing a job in the digital strategies space.
“I was working in SEO optimization and I got YouTube certified in audience growth,” he said. “So I started looking at what was really excelling and realized that the two things people really loved were cat videos and unboxing videos.”
The famous investor s company owns scores of businesses including Geico, See s Candies, and the BNSF railway, as well as billion-dollar stakes in Apple, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and other public companies.
As a result, Berkshire was hit hard when the COVID-19 pandemic spurred authorities to impose lockdowns, shutter non-essential businesses, and roll out travel restrictions last spring.
Buffett initially took cover, selling Berkshire s stakes in the big four US airlines and slashing its positions in JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and other financial stocks in the second quarter of last year. The approach surprised many commentators who had expected the investor to deploy a chunk of Berkshire s roughly $130 billion cash pile when markets tanked.
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Iomega, a disk-drive maker that saw a spectacular rise and fall.
Burry probably sees parallels between Iomega s 90s cult following and the hype around
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The Big Short, issued a fresh warning Thursday to people feverishly speculating on stocks. How many current $stonck market fans lived #Iomega? the
Scion Asset Management boss asked in a now-deleted tweet. Some of us older folk have a few been there, done that badges that are fairly relevant about now.
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Adam Mead is the author of the upcoming book, The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren Buffett s concentrated investments, skillful delegation, and efforts to educate shareholders struck Mead during his research.
Here are Mead s seven key takeaways about Buffett and Berkshire.
Adam Mead devoured more than 10,000 pages of annual reports, regulatory filings, meeting transcripts, and other research material to assemble The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway.