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Dan Kent

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The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I mean, I've seen a lot worse 95-year-olds.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

Oh, no, for sure.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

He still kind of gets around, but yeah, just on the meeting overall, I think the issue is a lot of investors just cannot comprehend thinking as long-term as Berkshire does.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I think a lot of people are long-term investors, but the reality of it is the vast majority of investors are glued to their three-month P&L, their year-to-date returns, their one-year returns, whatever it may be, which is pretty easy when you have a five, six, even seven-figure portfolio and you're just kind of clicking buttons.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

But I mean-

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

Like these guys got to deploy hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder money.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

So situation kind of changes in that regard.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I mean, just in terms of the meeting, like I think the one thing you can take away from the entire meeting is the playbook is not changing.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

If you kind of thought that Buffett lost his touch and Abel was going to come in and just spend that cash pile, you're probably going to be disappointed.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I mean, he did make, I think it was really quickly.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

He bought Apple or sorry, not Apple alphabet after he took over.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I think it was a pretty small position, but they've made two moves over the last year.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I think they bought United Health and Alphabet, which are both up quite a bit.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I'm pretty sure from the bottom end of it.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

But I mean, if you get to like my position with Berkshire, like my actual position in my portfolio, I mean, if we get to a market drawdown.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

I mean, it's not guaranteed, but it's very, very likely you will see much lower volatility in a holding like Berkshire because it's what?

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

It's 40% cash pretty much.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

Yeah.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

And then they can deploy it into equities at discounts.

The Canadian Investor
Berkshire’s $400B Cash Pile + How to Buy Private AI Companies

So I'm not too concerned with it.