Chapter 592: Eat into Microsoft!
After Buffett acquired a large outstanding stake in Nokia, he took a personal sabbatical and returned to his small town of Omaha, Nebraska.
"I haven't been working lately, I'm going to walk the dog with my granddaughter, don't bother me. ”
Warren Buffett walks his dog "willfully", and Wall Street in the United States is anxious, has it been figured out that Buffett has invested in that company again?
Someone once studied Warren Buffett, who followed Buffett in the sixties and spent $100 on stocks, and in 1993 he would have received a return of more than $2 million.
This is the reason why many people pay attention to Buffett's investment direction.
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As the world's financial center, the United States has Wall Street financial hubs on the east coast and Silicon Valley technology centers on the west coast.
Omaha is a small country in the Midwest, but Warren Buffett likes to live here, he doesn't like to live in New York or Manhattan, he prefers to return to his hometown.
Because of the existence of Warren Buffett, and Buffett holds the Buffett annual meeting in Omaha every year, the eyes of the world will gather here, and tens of thousands of global investors will come from far and wide to gather here for a carnival of the investment community.
Therefore, Omaha's popularity is also not small.
Buffett was asked if Berkshire Hathaway was headquartered in Omaha instead of New York, not in the Manhattan financial center.
Warren Buffett said that in order to maintain his original intention, the development of world communications has accelerated, and there are many points of focus, resulting in a large amount of information surplus.
Many investors expect to sell or buy with a continuous surge, but from a long historical point of view, from the perspective of a world capital market, this kind of volatility will not exceed 15% in years.
Open the historical candlestick chart of A-shares, most of the time it is a slow rise and a slow fall.
Open the stock markets in Europe and the United States, and the changes are actually very slow. Most days in this market, it's impossible to expect to get rich overnight.
In Omaha, a small town, life happens to be slow and comfortable, which is suitable for keeping one's heart and seeing that the real rhythm of the entire impetuous stock market is far from rising or falling every day.
As the world's investment giant and the pillar of the American economy, Buffett inevitably settled in big cities such as Washington and New York; But for the "stock gods", only Omaha is the best place to live!
He has lived in his Omaha apartment for nearly 60 years and has been working in the Chiway Square building for more than 50 years. Not only Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, but also five Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in Omaha.
Warren Buffett returned to Omaha and was about to walk the dog with his granddaughter, but before his ass was hot, someone called him, it was his young friend Bill Gates, who said that he was coming and wanted to share the greatest joy in his life with him.
That, he can't refuse.
That's a friend.
Romantic things always happen, regardless of the crowd and the noble and the low, when someone thinks that they have true love, that is, they have the whole world, so we see the proposal scene in a square or garden, or a high-end restaurant.
Huaxia's marriage proposal will be gentle and delicate, and Americans like creative proposals, and prefer to pull a large army to help themselves propose.
Americans' creative marriage proposal will generally use the effective venue outside to have a vigorous proposal, in the airport, train station and other large places, planning a unique marriage proposal scene, uncomfortable to give a custom ring, and then countless people stop to bless them.
On April 11, 1993, on a charter flight from Florida to Seattle.
"Honey, would you like to ......"
Bill Gates pulled out his engagement ring.
This is Gates proposing to Melinda.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
The crowd on the plane cheered, they were all Microsoft employees, they didn't give their boss a big reputation, were they ready to be fired.
After Gates' proposal, he arranged for a plane to make a short stop in Omaha, Nebraska.
He wants to tell his friend Warren Buffett the good news of his successful engagement and bring his fiancée to him to see.
In Bill Gates' eyes, Buffett is an elder and a bosom friend.
In Buffett's eyes, Bill Gates is a year-old friend.
The two have a deep friendship.
Bill Gates took Melinda shopping with his friend Warren Buffett.
At this time, Huaxia Li Jun was eating Microsoft.
Warren Buffett has never bought Microsoft stock, the two are the closest friends, why didn't Buffett invest in Bill Gates?
If Warren Buffett eats up all of Microsoft's stock, then his wealth will have to double again.
In 2018, the year of Li Jun's rebirth, Warren Buffett answered investors' questions at the shareholder meeting, why did Berkshire Hathaway never invest in or buy Microsoft shares?
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a member of Berkshire Hathaway's board of directors and a close personal friend of Warren Buffett. Some argue that, given Microsoft's unprecedented success, a deal between the two companies is something that fools should know.
In response to this problem, Buffett said bluntly: "A few years ago, it was obvious that we should invest, but when doing business with friends, it is inevitable that some people will speculate that we have insider trading in private." ”
Most people think that it is cherishing feathers.
But the real situation.
Warren Buffett talks about the risks and potential dangers that working with Bill Gates can face, especially how the media and other companies will perceive it.
"It would have been a mistake for Berkshire to take Microsoft in, because if something had happened a week or a month after the acquisition, Gates and I would have been the target of all sorts of bad talk and rumors," he said. I stayed away from these kinds of investments because I was afraid that something like that would take advantage of something I once said to someone. This situation and my stupidity cost me a lot of money in vain. ”
Sometimes it is necessary to support friends, but it is a shackle in investment, Buffett also has itchy teeth, how good is that little Gates is not his friend...... I have made at least tens of billions of dollars less!
Li Jun's hidden wealth is estimated to be not inferior to Bill Gates, and he is at the same level as Bill Gates, but he is a hidden rich man, but he does not have such scruples as Buffett, and he is not a friend of Bill Gates.
Eat, eat......
Any company can go public, but time will tell, that's a quote from Nasdaq.
However, to become a great public company like Microsoft, this probability is 1 in a million, and human business has been famous, but there are only a handful of companies like Microsoft.
In the NASDAQ to eat Microsoft stock, Li Junru gluttony, but small.
The NASDAQ is an electronic evidence trading agency in the United States and is by far one of the largest stock markets in the world.
It is also the fastest growing market in the world's major stock markets, and it is the first electronic stock market, and more than half of the stocks that change hands every day in the U.S. market are traded on the NASDAQ.
Microsoft's stock is worth owning for life, and in the future, Bill Gates will stabilize the throne of the world's richest man for 22 consecutive years.