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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting achen Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11 Thousands of people come to Omaha each spring for the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ meeting to hear the insights of Warren Buffett and Charles Munger, Buffett’s longtime business partner. annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Omaha is a nice weekend getaway with a number of attractions in addition to the annual meeting events.

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

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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. According to PitchBook, female-founded startups raised $10.5

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

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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. According to PitchBook, female-founded startups raised $10.5

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

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Texas Cancer Registry data from 2017 reported that Black people in Jefferson County, which includes Port Arthur, had cancer rates 15% higher than average Texans, and cancer mortality rates nearly 40% higher than the state average. 8 Another study showed that one technology misidentified a number of black U.S. lawmakers for criminals.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

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Texas Cancer Registry data from 2017 reported that Black people in Jefferson County, which includes Port Arthur, had cancer rates 15% higher than average Texans, and cancer mortality rates nearly 40% higher than the state average. 8 Another study showed that one technology misidentified a number of black U.S. lawmakers for criminals.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

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We wrote about our moats framework extensively in our August 2020 letter FOJI (Fear of Joining In) and in 2Q 2017’s Caped Crusade. However, there is an important nuance in that more players have exited than the limited number who entered over time due to high barriers to entry and exit. Recently governments in the U.S.,