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companies that had grown rich and
powerful almost overnight, and the
venture capitalists who had fed them
cash. These people were riding high.
When the celebrity photographer Annie
Leibovitz showed up to shoot “the
Media All-Star Team” for Vanity Fair,
some of them lobbied to get in the
photo. They were the future, they
believed.
Buffett was decidedly not a part of
this group. He was an old-school investor
who didn’t get caught up in
speculative frenzy around companies
with unclear earnings prospects. Some
dismissed him as a relic of the past. But
Buffett was still powerful enough to
give the keynote address on the final
day of the conference.
He thought long and hard about that
speech and spent weeks preparing for
it. After warming up the crowd with a
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