Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel recently took shots at Warren Buffett, referring to him as a “sociopathic grandpa from Omaha,” and Bitcoin’s “enemy number 1” Thiel’s fiery remarks came during a recent Bitcoin conference in Miami, Florida.
Charlie Munger says what many CEOs think but decline to say.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is beating the S&P 500 in 2021 and over the weekend delivered second quarter earnings that showed its rebound from the pandemic. One area where Buffett and Berkshire aren’t leading, though, is on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, and on issues like climate change, where Buffett has said personal belief in its significance does not compel management to make decisions based on shareholder climate concerns.
