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1996年股东大会 · 巴菲特:什么样的生意会让比尔盖茨感兴趣

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Alan Rock,来自 Pennsylvania 的 Pittsburgh。

Alan Rock, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

你一向不太喜欢 technology,但你跟 Bill Gates 还有 Microsoft 的关系又很近,你有没有想过邀请他通过董事会加入 Berkshire,或者让他参与进来,也许帮忙解决 World Book 的一些问题,把它带到新的 technology 上,并且把它扩展开来?

Knowing your aversion to technology but your close affiliation with Bill Gates, Microsoft, have you ever considered either inviting him to be part of Berkshire through the board or being involved to maybe solve some of the problems with World Book and taking it to the new technology and expanding it?

另外一方面,你也很喜欢 insurance 和 float。

And on the other end, you also love insurance and the float.

你有没有考虑过别的有类似特点的生意,比如 cemeteries 和 funeral homes,它们有 pre-need 业务,也有很大的现金储备?

Have you considered the other businesses that would have that similarity such as cemeteries and funeral homes with their pre-need and their large cash reserves?
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Bill 和我在几年前谈过 encyclopedia 这个行业,不过那时候他在 Encarta 上已经投入得很深了,确实已经做得很深入了,实际上那甚至还是在我认识他之前。

Bill and I talked about the encyclopedia business some years ago, but he was pretty far down the line in Encarta, quite far down the line in Encarta, actually before I even met him.

所以那并不是——我的猜测是,如果我们更早认识的话,这件事也许会发展出点什么。

So it wasn't— my guess is if we'd met earlier that there might have been something evolved in that.

但他已经在 Encarta 上下了很多筹码,而且做得也很好。

But he had put a lot of chips on Encarta and had done a good job with it.

所以实际上——跟他在 World Book 上合作,并不是一个真正可行的选择。

So it really wasn't— it wasn't a real option to work with him on World Book.

Bill 对他自己的业务也非常专注。我相信他在某家 biotech company 的董事会里,而且他在那家公司有相当大的投资;但是你不会看到他出现在那些——至少据我所知,在 Pacific Northwest 那边,就算他有很多朋友、也很了解那些公司,甚至可能和其中一些人从小一起长大——你也不会看到他去上那些董事会。

Bill also is very focused on his business and I believe he's on the board of some biotech company in which he's got a significant investment, but you will not see him on the boards of, at least I don't know of any in the Pacific Northwest where he has a lot of friends and knows the companies well, maybe grew up with some of the people.

但我觉得你不会看到他去做那种——就是那种在智力上抓不住他、不能真正引起他兴趣的生意。

But I don't think you'll see him on anything which really doesn't— which is just a business that doesn't grab him intellectually or something.

我确实觉得有一家 biotech company 是他以这种方式参与的,而且,你知道,他会是个非常了不起的助力,但他真的把重心放在 Microsoft 上。

I do think there's one biotech company that he's involved in that way, and, you know, he'd be a terrific asset, but he really focuses on Microsoft.

我记得他的董事会会议是在星期六开。

He has his board meetings, as I remember, on Saturday.

一开就是一整天,他就是这样投入那个业务的。

They last, you know, all day, and he goes after the business that way.

他不是——我觉得他不会对去做 bank 的董事或者 insurance company 的董事感兴趣,因为他会觉得自己还有别的事情更值得花时间去做,而且我想他大概是对的。

He's not— I don't think he'd be interested in being on a bank board or an insurance company board because he just figures he's got other things to do with his time, and I think he's probably right.

Zone 3?

Zone 3?

Zone 3。

Zone 3.