[lupire]

Why? He owns those companies.

[Bukhmanizer]

I guess it would be like Bill Gates advertising for Windows and Xbox at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Like I get the incentive but it doesn’t seem like the right place for it

[kube-system]

They’re not Buffet’s side hustle. They’re Berkshire subsidiaries. It’s more like Microsoft’s website having an ad for an GitHub or LinkedIn on it.

[Bukhmanizer]

To be clear I think the weirdnesses is in the pseudo-personal tone of it. This isn’t your uncle trying to sell you on his new business during thanksgiving dinner.

This is a billionaire trying to sell low low prices to presumably investors.

[kube-system]

That’s kind of Buffet’s thing.

“Value” is a big philosophy of his, in investing and in business strategy, and many of his followers believe the same.

[JadeNB]

Or like Google's home page advertising Chrome (which they did early on in its life, which was surely a big factor in how they grew their market share so fast).

[my123]

They still do it.

[JadeNB]

I just visited to check before posting, and didn't see it, but I guess I shouldn't assume that one visit to google.com is typical.

[szundi]

No, it is like Microsoft advertising Linkedin on their website. They own it.