<story><title>Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter</title><url>http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Warren-Buffett-Just-Wrote-His-Best-Annual-Letter-Ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pokoleo</author><text>I had a chance to read the letter - I went from knowing nothing about Buffet&amp;#x27;s businesses to knowing a lot, very quickly.&lt;p&gt;On a related note, I wonder if Gates writing this praise was spurred by something, maybe some news about Buffet. He&amp;#x27;s relatively senior (84), and has been running Berkshire for a while now. Maybe he&amp;#x27;s getting ready to give up the reins.&lt;p&gt;In fact, he builds up the reputation his menagerie of &amp;quot;very experienced people&amp;quot; to run individual businesses - I wonder how they will run things when Warren isn&amp;#x27;t around.&lt;p&gt;While you&amp;#x27;re at it, take some time to check out the Berkshire Hathaway site. It directly services what they&amp;#x27;re trying to do: provide investor information.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.berkshirehathaway.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldec</author><text>&amp;quot;I wonder if Gates writing this praise was spurred by something&amp;quot; - it was likely spurred by criticism in the economist:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/news/business/21645746-warren-buffetts-50th-annual-missive-his-companys-shareholders-obfuscates-rather?zid=295&amp;amp;ah=0bca374e65f2354d553956ea65f756e0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;21645746-warren-buffe...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter</title><url>http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Warren-Buffett-Just-Wrote-His-Best-Annual-Letter-Ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pokoleo</author><text>I had a chance to read the letter - I went from knowing nothing about Buffet&amp;#x27;s businesses to knowing a lot, very quickly.&lt;p&gt;On a related note, I wonder if Gates writing this praise was spurred by something, maybe some news about Buffet. He&amp;#x27;s relatively senior (84), and has been running Berkshire for a while now. Maybe he&amp;#x27;s getting ready to give up the reins.&lt;p&gt;In fact, he builds up the reputation his menagerie of &amp;quot;very experienced people&amp;quot; to run individual businesses - I wonder how they will run things when Warren isn&amp;#x27;t around.&lt;p&gt;While you&amp;#x27;re at it, take some time to check out the Berkshire Hathaway site. It directly services what they&amp;#x27;re trying to do: provide investor information.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.berkshirehathaway.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breck</author><text>Could be. From the end of the letter:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Both the board and I believe we now have the right person to succeed me as CEO – a successor ready to
assume the job the day after I die or step down.&amp;quot;</text></comment>