by PaulWaldman on 11/20/22, 6:56 PM
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Linking to this website without written permission is strictly prohibited. Really hope meesterdude obtained said required written permission prior posting.
by shreyshnaccount on 11/20/22, 6:23 PM
This type of website, with just the addition responsive text, is how most of the internet should ideally be.
by dazc on 11/20/22, 4:29 PM
I think this has been posted multiple times but, yeah, they are never going to succeed with a website like this.
by Scoundreller on 11/20/22, 6:50 PM
Did a View Source on their table of quarterly/annual reports, and there it is:
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 15">
That equates to Office 2013
by johnorourke on 11/20/22, 6:08 PM
What a great example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
by miobrien on 11/20/22, 6:13 PM
I wish more websites/companies realized how effective, practical, and beautiful this design is.
by Bukhmanizer on 11/20/22, 6:30 PM
It’s weird that the “message from Warren Buffett” is an ad for Geico and a jewelry brand. I get that they’re subsidiaries but still.
by amin on 11/20/22, 6:09 PM
“The more beautiful the brochure, the more skeptical you should be.”
- popular saying amongst Dutch investors
by samwillis on 11/20/22, 6:13 PM
I wander if you look at "website bytes" to market cap as a metric, these might be most valuable bytes?
(That's if you ignore the websites of subsidies)
by osigurdson on 11/20/22, 6:52 PM
I get it, but I don't think many companies could get away with this. The site is for serious investors and simplicity is part of the brand. Imagine miro.com (whatever that is but I've seen lots of ads for in on YouTube), using this type of style - it seems unlikely that it would be successful. I'd like to see someone try however.
by heratyian on 11/20/22, 6:43 PM
I visited their corporate HQ in Omaha last summer. No signs on the building. No indication it's one of the most valuable companies in the world.
by PaulWaldman on 11/20/22, 6:37 PM
I love that it looks like it hasn't been updated in 30 years, yet the copyright date indicates 2022.
by karaterobot on 11/20/22, 6:43 PM
The most recent news post is about
https://berkshirehathawaytx.com/, a crypto exchange that is obviously trying to use the brand. The TX evidently stands for Texas, don't you know.
by acqbu on 11/20/22, 6:41 PM
Is the website coded and maintained by Buffet himself?
by JYellensFuckboy on 11/20/22, 7:11 PM
Normally I loathe Geico ads with every fiber of my being, but that little guy at the bottom of the page is so cute!
by indus on 11/20/22, 5:59 PM
but their annual meeting is five hours :-)
by bernardv on 11/20/22, 5:54 PM
They have no need for glitzy smoke and mirrors. Love it.
by yieldcrv on 11/20/22, 7:09 PM
Why is "WEB" capitalized there
something something the 90s?
by prpl on 11/20/22, 6:32 PM
Nice pun in there about the WEB page.
by yuvalkarmi on 11/20/22, 6:11 PM
Why is there a Geico ad on the site?
by BRKB on 11/20/22, 7:17 PM
On the other hand, Berkshire Hathaway is Apple's largest investor.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns and operates some of the world's largest wind and solar energy farms and is building state-of-the-art Terrapower (Bill Gates) nuclear reactors:
https://www.brkenergy.com/
There's a lot for a "tech investor" to like about the company. As a consequence, Berkshire has a top-notch subreddit, probably the best subreddit of any company:
r/brkb (https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/)
Other investors will appreciate that Berkshire owns all of a large part of America's freight transportation system:
https://www.bnsf.com/
And is the largest investor in important parts of its financial system (Bank of America), etc.