Angus Fletcher

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2,582 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 8 Jul

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Angus Fletcher · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And so Warren Buffett would invest in companies and he had no idea whatsoever about anything they were making, but he sat down.

He would ask them simple questions.

So for example, he would say to them, what would happen if this radical change happens in six months?

What are you going to do?

What if all the satellites fall out of the sky?

What if there's a war with Taiwan?

Whatever.

And if they said, oh, that's okay, we've got a contingency plan for that, he would say, you're fired.

Because how could you possibly have a contingency plan for something new, right?

Whereas if they would pause and say, you know what, I hadn't thought about that, but here's something that we could do, he would say, that's great.

You've got high common sense.

I trust you.

So he would do little things like that, test them and see how good they were at essentially activating story thinking.

And he would invest in story thinkers, people who had common sense, because that was the real value.

That was the value investment.

So I gotta be honest with you, this is my theory of how he changed.

So if you get a different Shakespeare scholar.

Well, you're saying it's your theory.

So what we do know for certain is that Shakespeare started out a very ordinary writer.

So you go back and read Shakespeare's early plays like Henry VI or Titus Andronicus or what have you,

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