Post #1306 by longtimebrk on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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Secondly, my issue with diversity on the Berkshire board has nothing to do with gender or skin colour but the fact that the talk does not match the walk in one area. Two of the additions have been the Buffett kids. Neither has any independent business record that qualifies them to provide governance and robust challenge when required to the Berkshire executive team. They are there purely by virtue of inherited holdings despite Buffett's frequent comments on inherited. "

Precisely. Not one but two!

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