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Jon Quast

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

I wouldn't necessarily say, though, that this is Abel trying to establish himself and make a name for himself and go his own direction.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

If you look at the stake that Berkshire has in Kraft Heinz, yes, it is huge.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

And yet it's only 2.4% of Berkshire's total stock portfolio.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

And so if he was going to make his mark, he'd do it in another company such as Coca-Cola or American Express, selling off these much more important positions.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

But I think he's just tidying up the portfolio from something that he recognizes maybe isn't going to deliver the returns they're looking for.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

And Buffett's already expressed that he's disappointed.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

Let's see you do it.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

We've talked before on this show about personalized AI and how Alphabet really does have a good hand to play when you consider its distribution and all of its products that integrate together.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

To me, Apple is really just piggybacking on that.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

It does have the consumer reach and the distribution and the products as well.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

I think it can do personalized AI.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

The partnership with Gemini makes sense.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

Late Apple founder Steve Jobs once said, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

Maybe Apple is going to show us that we really want this.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

I can wrap my head around the use cases a little bit, but when it comes to what I'd actually use this for in the logistics of making it work,

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

I just don't see any AI device company out there that can get it done.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

You look at the defunct startups out there that have tried and have failed.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

I think that the Apple Vision Pro is a good example here.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

We have talked about VR headsets forever.

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FSD’s Big Week, Abel Makes a Mark on Berkshire, and 24/7 Trading

I really think that Apple delivered a just beautiful product when it came to the Apple Vision Pro, and people haven't really adopted it because still... $3,500 is a lot to spend for a VR headset, to be fair.