Bonus: Good Bad Billionaire
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, Ed Butler brings you a podcast from our friends at Good Bad Billionaire.
In the series, presenters Simon Jack and Zing Tseng find out how the richest people on the planet made their billions, and then they judge them.
Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire?
This episode focuses on Warren Buffett - how did he became the richest investor in history?
Listen to every episode of Good Bad Billionaire wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to what is usually Business Daily. |
| 0:04.3 | But today we thought you might be interested in something extra from our BBC colleagues at Good Bad Billionaire. |
| 0:11.3 | Good Bad Billionaire is a podcast which profiles some of the richest people on the planet. |
| 0:17.0 | Presenters Simon Jack and Zing Singh find out how they made their billions. |
| 0:22.6 | And then they judge them. Are they good, bad or just another billionaire? |
| 0:27.3 | This program is about the richest investor in history, Warren Buffett. |
| 0:32.1 | You can only get this episode here. |
| 0:34.0 | If you want to hear more, search for good, Bad, Billionaire, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:48.9 | Welcome to Good, Bad, Billionaire, the show where we pick a billionaire every episode and find out how they made their money. |
| 0:55.3 | Then we judge them. Are they good, bad or just another billionaire? |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Zing Singh and I'm an author, journalist and podcaster. |
| 1:01.6 | And I'm Simon Jack and I'm the BBC's business editor. |
| 1:04.1 | And this episode we have someone who is kind of a big deal, right, Simon? |
| 1:08.8 | In my world, he's almost like a kind of high priest of investment, I would say. |
| 1:14.2 | He's in fact called the Oracle of Omaha. |
| 1:16.7 | Omaha being the place where he's actually from and still lives. |
| 1:19.7 | He still lives, despite his vast wealth in the same house he bought in the late 1950s. |
| 1:26.4 | Wow. Kind of a unique billionaire, I'd put it that way. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, he is Warren Buffett. As I say, sometimes known as the sage of Omaha, sometimes the |
| 1:34.9 | Oracle of Omaha, but probably the most successful investor of all time. He's also 93 years old |
| 1:42.3 | and still going. Yeah. She's pretty impressive in and of itself. Let's do some numbers around him. He's also 93 years old and still going. Yeah. Which is pretty impressive in and of itself. |
| 1:45.8 | Let's do some numbers around him. |
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