Ben Gilbert: belief

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…A figure, yeah. Yeah. The surreality of the moment I think hit me the most when there was a question we asked Charlie and he responded, I'm not interested in being any more of a guru than I already am. You could see that even though it worked so well for him to get so much of his wisdom to the masses—and he and Warren both have been these incredible teachers their whole last 50-plus years—in addition to their main job of being great investors, capital allocators, operators, they're these educators on the side. That education and universe that they've created has blown up to the point where I think it weighs a little bit heavy at least on Charlie. It's almost like the burden he carries to get his wisdom out is that he has to be treated as a guru or a character in a story rather than just a person. I have no idea what Charlie would say to that, obviously. But I think for people who find themselves in those positions, Steve Jobs was that, for sure, obviously Warren and Charlie are that, Jensen may be on his way to becoming that.…

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