🔥 Berkshire Hathaway опубликовала результаты за 2024 год и обращение Уоррена Баффета к акционерам. С одной стороны, в финансовых показателях новый рекорд по операционной прибыли — $47,44 млрд (+27% год к году). С другой — положительный результат от инвестиций просел с $58,87 млрд до $41,56 млрд (-29,4%).
☝️Известно, что Баффет не стесняется признавать ошибки. Но в этот раз в своем обращении к инвесторам он сделал это основной идеей. Вот какие ошибки допускал «оракул из Омахи»:
🟠В оценке компаний. «В каждом случае это было неправильное распределение капитала»;
🟠При найме персонала. «В других случаях я допускал ошибки в оценке способностей или преданности менеджеров».
🔥 Berkshire Hathaway опубликовала результаты за 2024 год и обращение Уоррена Баффета к акционерам. С одной стороны, в финансовых показателях новый рекорд по операционной прибыли — $47,44 млрд (+27% год к году). С другой — положительный результат от инвестиций просел с $58,87 млрд до $41,56 млрд (-29,4%).
☝️Известно, что Баффет не стесняется признавать ошибки. Но в этот раз в своем обращении к инвесторам он сделал это основной идеей. Вот какие ошибки допускал «оракул из Омахи»:
🟠В оценке компаний. «В каждом случае это было неправильное распределение капитала»;
🟠При найме персонала. «В других случаях я допускал ошибки в оценке способностей или преданности менеджеров».
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. Investors took profits on Friday while they could ahead of the weekend, explained Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research. Saturday and Sunday could easily bring unfortunate news on the war front—and traders would rather be able to sell any recent winnings at Friday’s earlier prices than wait for a potentially lower price at Monday’s open.
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