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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures

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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures ajackson Thu, 07/05/2018 - 11:49 Women wield more economic power and influence in the U.S. billion in venture funding in 2017—a healthy number but still just a small fraction of the $85 billion raised overall. today than at any time in history.

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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures

Brown Advisory

Women wield more economic power and influence in the U.S. billion in venture funding in 2017—a healthy number but still just a small fraction of the $85 billion raised overall. She views failure due to negligence or poor ethics as totally within her control, and is comfortable with the idea of failure for other reasons.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

The expected competitive forces don’t materialise, and we believe that superior economics can be maintained for a lot longer than our standard microeconomics mean-reversion frameworks would suggest. We wrote about our moats framework extensively in our August 2020 letter FOJI (Fear of Joining In) and in 2Q 2017’s Caped Crusade.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well. KHC’s share price has fallen from a high of over $90 per share in 2017 to about $30 recently. Other industries developed to absorb farm jobs that were replaced by machinery.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well. KHC’s share price has fallen from a high of over $90 per share in 2017 to about $30 recently. Other industries developed to absorb farm jobs that were replaced by machinery.