David Rosenthal

And I thought, you know, I just liked him.

Just liked him.

You couldn't help but like him.

So I started to soften.

And when we get to the financial crisis, I thought, well, his money is going to be so valuable here.

What is needed is credit.

And I think if he stays alive long enough, it might happen again soon.

Yeah.

And so I bought a chunk of the A shares, and I've just sat on them.

And let me tell you, can I tell you a Warren Buffett story?

Yeah.

I mean, this is talking a little bit out of school, but I never met him.

I know he was really irritated with me, and then I actually looked back at that.

It's the only time I've ever looked back at a piece I wrote, and I thought, I overdid that.

I went right back to The New Republic and wrote another 5,000-word thing about Warren Buffett, in which I basically apologized for the first piece.

I bought these shares in 2008.

When I was working on Going Infinite, I was working on the Sam Bankman Freed book, and I was talking to...

a publicist, completely unrelated to Warren Buffett.

And she said, you know, I also represent Warren.

And she said, and I told Warren that I'd been talking to you.