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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

The Big Picture

And she has really managed to accomplish tremendous things, not just at Microsoft, where she ran MSNs advertising and marketing, not just at Yahoo or Pinterest, but even a small startup like Honey, which she was president and sold pretty quickly to PayPal for $4 billion. San Diego State studying journalism and advertising. It was fun.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, court investors with quarterly earnings calls and management meetings, or even have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, court investors with quarterly earnings calls and management meetings, or even have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

You know, they hired this guy, Mike Carpenter, you know, from McKinsey to be the M&A guy and you know, just create a strategic planning department just to do deals. COHAN: You know — RITHOLTZ: What’s your advertising dollar? They were really an M&A machine. COHAN: Did a ton of deals. RITHOLTZ: Yes.