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Crowd shrinks as Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO leads the annual meeting for the first time Saturday

New York Post·Associated Press·about 1 month ago
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The folksy wisdom and jokes that were a staple of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting for decades when Warren Buffett  was leading the show will be missing Saturday, but shareholders still started lining up at midnight outside a Nebraska arena to listen to new  CEO Greg Abel. Attendance is down significantly this year with the arena only a little over half full as the meeting started. That’s much different from the past few years when more than 40,000 attended to listen to the 95-year-old Buffett and — before his death in 2023, Buffett’s longtime partner Charlie Munger was always part of the fun. Buffett gave up the CEO title in January, but he remains chairman and will be sitting with the rest of the Berkshire board on the floor to listen at the meeting. Saturday’s meeting began with a video tribute to Buffett filled with clips from the previous 60 years of annual meetings.…

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