Warren Buffett

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Over six decades at the helm, Buffett paired compounding capital allocation with personal frugality—living continuously in the Omaha house he bought for $31,500 in 1958 and drawing an unchanged $100,000 salary for more than 40 years. In 2010, he co-founded The Giving Pledge with Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, committing over 99% of his wealth to charity and donating more than $72 billion in Berkshire shares to date. At age 95–96, Buffett executed his long-planned two-stage succession across 2025–2026: he retired as Berkshire's CEO on December 31, 2025, handing operational and portfolio command to Greg Abel on January 1, 2026, and stepped down after 56 years as Chairman on September 18, 2026—assuming the title of Chairman Emeritus and remaining a board director while his son Howard Graham Buffett took over as non-executive Chairman. Simultaneously, in July 2026, Buffett abruptly cut the Gates Foundation out of his ~$6 billion annual stock giveaway following Capitol Hill disclosures regarding Bill Gates's historical ties to Jeffrey Epstein, redirecting all future share distributions to four Buffett family foundations with a target to divest his entire Berkshire stake by December 31, 2034.

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Berkshire Hathaway

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