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Berkshire Hathaway Becomes HP’s Largest Shareholder, Thoma Bravo Co-Founder Orlando Bravo on Bitcoin & Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao on Twitter Content Moderation 4/7/22

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CNBC

Disruptors, Investing, Faang, Technology, Business, Management, Cnbc, Tech

4.856 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our anchors begin today’s show breaking down Berkshire Hathaway becoming HP’s largest shareholder with CNBC’s Mike Santoli, and Satori Fund Founder Dan Niles looks at tech investment opportunities in today’s market. Then, Thoma Bravo Co-Founder Orlando Bravo discusses the private equity firm’s latest ventures, his thoughts on the future of Bitcoin and more. Next, Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao offers her insight on Twitter’s content moderation in light of Elon Musk joining the social media platform’s board, and our Jon Fortt recaps his recent interview with tax software maker Avalara CEO Scott McFarlane. Later, our Deirdre Bosa shares highlights from her conversation with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on digital currency and fee compression for crypto exchanges.

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0:00.0

I'm Deirdreboza and you're listening to see MBC's Tech Check. Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern. Listen in.

0:12.4

Happy Thursday,

0:13.2

Welcome to Tech Check.

0:14.0

I'm John Fort with Diocese.

0:15.5

Carl is on assignment today.

0:17.6

Buffet's newest tech bet, we will break down the move and how it fits

0:21.5

with Berkshire's other tech investments and who better

0:24.2

to discuss making big calls to investor Dan Niles with us this hour and speaking of

0:29.0

deals and valuations fresh off a more than $10 dollar acquisition of Anuplan,

0:34.2

Toma Bravo, co-founder Orlando Bravo is going to join us for an exclusive

0:38.2

you don't want to miss.

0:39.5

And Buffett's not the only one making big bets in tech.

0:42.4

On the heels of Elon Musk joining

0:44.1

Twitter's board we are talking moderation with the former CEO of Reddit later

0:48.1

this hour D. A big show ahead John but we are going to kick off today's feed

0:52.1

with Warren Buffett's

0:53.0

newest investment and it's in tech HP Inc the printer and computer maker

0:56.8

Berkshire Hathaway now the company's largest shareholder with an 11% stake

1:01.2

worth more than 4 billion, but following Musk's Twitter stake investors like

1:06.3

Buffett are making big calls about what has value in this market.

1:10.8

Here is Mike Santoli with about how to think about Berkshire's investment and

1:14.2

Mike yeah a lot of the commentary today is what is HP is that an Apple or an IBM it is

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