Gadgetopia

Now you know how he got to be so rich--he doesn't blow his money on website design!

It's not too atypical of other holding company websites, which is what Berkshire Hathaway is: The real action is at the companies BH owns like Geico etc. There's really not much of a story to tell on the holding company level. If you really want corporate detail, you can always look at their SEC filings.

That was exactly what I was going to post, but CT beat me to it...

dz

At the bottom of the page it says: "If you have any comments about our WEB page" - did you tell/ask them? I wonder what their response would be.

Tom

I'm just about 150 miles north of Omaha on I-29. It would take a Buffet hit team less than two hours to get here. Someone else do it...

Given that the shareholders meeting was this weekend, I think Warren is just happy that you didn't show up as the 'buffet' hit team on the catering for his stockholders.

"buffet"....oh, I get it.

I'm laughing so hard right now that my middle finder is inexplicity stuck in the extended position. And now my chair has spontaneously swiveled to face southwest. I can't explain it...

Upon further review, that joke sucked. I apologize.

Looks like one of Warren's kids (grandkids?) is taking their first computer class. "This morning we're going to make a web page!"

What is Warren Buffet's middle name? What does the E stand for?

his middle name is ernest

just a though: what exactly does this company do? I mean, what do they do to get their stock at $84,000?

Berkshire is a holding company -- it does little more than buy and hold onto other companies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway

According to the above article at Wikipedia, here are some of the companies that Berkshire owns (wholly or in part):

• General Re
• Geico
• Kansas Bankers Surety Insurance Company
• National Indemnity Company
• Wesco Financial Corporation
• Borsheim's Fine Jewelry
• Dairy Queen
• Fruit of the Loom
• Nebraska Furniture Mart (Berkshire is based out of Omaha, after all)
• The Pampered Chef
• See's Candies
• World Book
• NetJets

As for the high share price:

Berkshire Hathaway is notable in that it never allows its shares to split. Each share is thus worth tens of thousands of dollars. However, Berkshire Hathaway has created a Class B stock, with a price set to 1/30 of that of the original shares (now Class A) but 1/200 of the per-share voting rights. Holders of Class A stock are allowed to convert their stock to Class B, though not vice versa.

wow... thanks for this blog. i was wondering for the longest time why the wealthiest man in the world had such a shitty website... idk whatever floats ur boat

I know, it has to be the shittiest corporate website in the world... but then again, who are we to laugh? A shitty website hasn't done Warren Buffet, or indeed Google, any harm, eh?!

P.S. Just to clarify: I'm not calling Google's website(s) "shit" by any means... I'm merely referring to their apparent lack of visual design (a phenomenon Joe Clark dubbed "anti-design").

Glad I found you expressing the same concerns, I honestly thought it was a fake website (like an "unofficial" site) for the company.

There must be a Web 2.0 or at least some more modern designed, branded version somewhere?!

Ridiculous. There are so many start-ups and even church garage sales that have better websites than this, it's embarrassing.

Clearly though, it's not affecting profits to the company.