I’m not sure how many of you follow Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway closely, but here are a couple of significant updates as a follow-up to the 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting where he announced that he was stepping down as CEO at the end of 2025:
- WSJ: Warren Buffett Reveals He Stepped Down After Finally Feeling His Age (Gift Article). I suppose this is him taking the opportunity to explain his surprise announcement at the very end of the Shareholder Meeting. I appreciate that he stepped down on his own terms, as always in a rational manner and not egotistically staying on too long.
- CNBC: Warren Buffett will not take the stage at next year’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. I was surprised that he will not longer participate in the annual Q&A session, as many thought Abel/Buffett could share the stage like Buffett/Munger. Munger was Vice-Chairman of Berkshire, and Buffett is still Chairman.
As he will no longer be CEO, I am assuming this means that he will also not write anything in the annual Letter to Shareholders, which means that his public interactions will be severely limited to whatever few interviews he grants, if any. The end of an era.