No. of Recommendations: 9
I don't think this matters.
Todd and Ted have gotten some great remarks in the annual letter - I'm remembering maybe 5-10 years ago Warren made mention about their returns on stocks had eclipsed his own. And in his folksy self-deprecating way, he put it in a parenthetical in a small font.
I say it doesn't matter because in 2006 or so, when Warren made a thin, indirect indication that he was looking for an investing right hand man. He got over 4,000 applications (I was one of them and as he also says, if the phone doesn't ring you'll know it is him calling).
There's a huge legion of talent that would be glad to be the head value investor for Greg. Greg has plenty of aptitude. Just on this board, there are folks with incredible strategic patience and analytic bent who would be ale to do this (just don't make me move to cold boring Omaha).
If nothing else this is good for Berkshire indirectly - Warren spoke of Byron Trott favorably on several occasions when he was at Goldman, and now Berkshire gets another capable, trusted agent at another huge firm.
