Emmet

Actually, not small, it's a reasonable volume.

Oh, there's a good bit of reading.

No, you're right.

Sorry, it's reductive to call it a small volume, but it's a small volume if you stacked up all the MBA books that you'd have to read to get an MBA.

So yeah, it's a smaller volume.

Yeah, for sure.

And he wrote a line that I figured might be engraved.

And Oma has some time when eventually he goes to the great trading floor in the sky.

And the line was, I will no longer be writing Berkshire's annual report or talking endlessly at the annual meeting.

and um he promised to keep his writing uh to keep writing his thanksgiving notes which are nice they're more quaint and folksy and shorter and otherwise um to turn use his own turn of phrase he's going quiet so i thought it might be interesting to talk a little bit about greg abel because you and i before this podcast spoke well we talked about the new berkshire boss

who has been known about since the turn of the year and indeed since last year.

Or we talk about the new Apple boss because they're both equally weighty, interesting and influential characters.

And we settled on the Berkshire, the new boss, Greg, because

of the AGM this weekend, and I'm sure in another podcast we'll need to come back and see what's this new CEO of Apple all about.

But it felt right to talk about this guy.

So I'm going to give it a few minutes if you think it's of interest, Mike.

Abel is more like the Tim Cook because Steve Jobs founded Apple.

Very much.

And they're both building on the foundation set before.

Yes, entirely.