Squawk Pod Reports: 2024 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Part 2 05/06/24

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We bring you part two of CNBC’s trip to Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, where tens of thousands of Berkshire shareholders convene to hear from Warren Buffett every spring. It’s part shareholder meeting, part shopping spree, and for Bertie Buffett Elliott, part family reunion. Warren Buffett’s little sister Bertie sits down with Becky Quick in a special conversation about the Buffett family upbringing and her own Warren memories. The highlights of the 2024 meeting include Warren Buffett’s take on AI, his plans for Berkshire’s $182 billion cash pile, and his pieces of advice for all listeners, old and young. Plus, catch a cameo from the Harlem Globetrotters and celebrity shareholder Bill Murray, as well as a conversation between venture capitalist Ann Winblad and CNBC’s Mike Santoli and Becky Quick.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm C.N.C. producer Katie Kramer. This is part two of a Squawk Pod report's special series, Our
0:09.9	Weekend with Warren Buffett. We're coming to you straight from Omaha, Nebraska
0:14.1	at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting.
0:16.6	Thanks, Warren Buffett himself.
0:21.6	Like what they're doing with $182 billion.
0:24.7	We only swing at pitches we like.
0:27.0	And how the Oracle of Omaha is thinking about AI.
0:30.6	As someone who doesn't understand the damn thing about it, it has enormous potential for good and enormous potential for harm.
0:38.0	We bring you inside this whirlwind event, the shopping, the portfolio companies, the tens of thousands of shareholders, and fans. the Yes, I have. Yes, sir. Shareholder and Venture Capitalist and Windblad wouldn't miss it.
0:55.0	The energy was really high in the room and an event where you thought it might start out softer, but Warren was
1:01.8	honest game for sure.
1:03.6	It's part Wall Street, part Main Street,
1:05.6	part family reunion, quite literally.
1:08.2	Warren's little sister, Bertie,
1:09.8	shares her favorite Buffett memories.
1:11.7	Did I train him to be a winner, because since he was winning all the time playing against me
1:16.4	that he owes his great success to the fact that I trained him to win.
1:21.9	We're bringing you to Omaha's annual party with its 93 year old host, Warren Buffett.
1:26.5	And I don't only hope that you come next year, but I hope I come next year.
1:30.1	This special Squawk Pod report starts we're on the ground in Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire
1:51.0	Hathaway Annual Meeting, with tens of thousands of Warren Buffett fans
1:55.1	and dozens of Berkshire Hathaway portfolio companies.
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