Brett Gardner - Buffett's Early Investments

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In this episode, investment analyst Brett Gardner joins Cole and Bill Smead to discuss his newly released book, "Buffett’s Early Investments," which explores Warren Buffett’s key initial ventures that shaped his approach to wealth-building. Gardner provides readers with a closer look at how the legendary investor's financial instincts and disciplined strategies helped lay the groundwork for his later success.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:08.0	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure.
0:12.9	You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor.
0:26.1	Welcome to a Book of the Legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help
0:31.5	shaped informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings. The late
0:36.8	great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis.
0:41.1	We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people.
0:45.5	Joining me to host this episode is our chairman and chief investor, my dad, Bill Smead.
0:49.9	Thanks for being here, Dad.
0:50.9	Great to be here. Love this topic.
0:52.7	Yeah, we're going to have some fun.
0:54.3	What was it like to meet the 25-year-old Warren Buffett or the fairly wealthy 35-year-old Berkshire
1:00.6	Hathaway Chairman?
1:02.3	While we can't time travel, we can meet this investor through the work of our guests today.
1:08.2	Brett Gardner is joining us to discuss his newly released book, Buffett's
1:11.9	early investments, a new investigation into the decades when Warren Buffett earned his best returns.
1:18.0	A little background on Brett. Brett is an investment analyst, a discerene group and has worked at
1:22.5	multiple investment firms in his career. He is a CFA charter holder and is a St. John's University Red Storm.
1:29.4	More importantly, Brett bought his first stock at 16. So Brett, thanks for joining us today.
1:36.3	Thanks for having me. So to start out, I mean, this is great research. I love this.
1:41.6	You know, if I was going to throw out a thing, I've always had trouble trying to
1:44.5	figure out is how many partnerships Buffett had. He, like, he had the MD partnership and all the,
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