Anyone who follows this blog with any regularity knows that I am a big Warren Buffett fan. As such, my wife and I have a small investment in Berkshire stock. We put our money here because we liked the idea of having a small part of our fates intertwined with the investing legend, and so we could go to the meeting. Of course, if you want to go to the meeting, you don’t have to be a shareholder.
We got our annual report, including our letter just a couple weeks ago. I had, of course, already read and reviewed the letter online (on the day it was posted). You can read a compilation of Buffett’s letters by category, or read any of them for free here. When you get your packet from Berkshire, if you’d like to go to the meeting, you have to drop a postcard in the mail with your name and how many meeting credentials you’d like to have. We asked for four, because at the time there was a good chance my brother-in-law and his girlfriend (also my wife’s best friend) were going to come with us. Something came up, and unfortunately they can’t go.
That being the case, we have two extra tickets to the meeting. The fun thing about that is, I get to give them away on the blog. So if anyone is interested, email me at the blog’s email address and let me know. I’ll give them to anyone who will pay the cost of shipping them to you. If more than one person emails me about them, I’ll do a drawing or something. If you clicked on the link, you realize that this offer doesn’t carry a tremendous amount of value – you can buy tickets to the meeting on eBay for five bucks or so. Buffett started putting these out there when he realized that people were selling tickets to the meeting for hundreds of dollars on a for profit basis. His companies tend to make money (lots) off the meeting, so he has a reason to make it easy for you to get there. In any case, I think it’s cool that he does this. I think shipping them to you will only be slightly cheaper for you than buying them that way. But the offer is out there if anyone is interested. The problem might be finding a room that weekend. I’d have to know you pretty well for me to allow you to stay in our room;) I know the hotels are gouging people and there aren’t many rooms left (we got ours a couple months ago). If you’re already going, maybe I’ll see you there.
We’ll definitely be going to see the Berkshire movie that morning, and of course we’ll see the entire question and answer session. I don’t know if we’ll go to any of the other stuff yet or not. I’m really excited about going, though. It’s been on my list of things I’d like to do for several years. Whenever you have the opportunity to hear someone who is great at what they do speak about their area of expertise, I think taking it is a good decision. It’s an added bonus that Buffett is sort of a finance celebrity and all around nice guy. Anyway…thanks for reading.
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