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OCTOBER 24, 2023

In our on-premises server business, revenue increased 2%, ahead of expectations, driven primarily by demand in advance of Windows Server 2012 end of support. billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. The lesson learned from the cloud side is this, we're not running a conglomerate of different businesses.

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APRIL 22, 2024

I used to pitch it at mobile app meet-ups in New York and San Francisco back in 2011, 2012 with the tag line of help turn your app into a business. Like how does Braze create value such that shareholders are going to see it over the next ten years? They've got to make bigger and bigger commitments to Braze. Is it a combination of both?

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Bill, you're thinking about your market cap range today for Clean Energy Fuels, which on a side note, I picked on a dark dark day in March of 2012. But sadly, I picked it higher than 20 and I picked it in March of 2012. Yasser El-Shimy: Well, the longtime shareholder of both Amazon.com and Shopify. That's how Marriott started.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

David Meier: Once upon a time, back in 2012, a company now known as Meta Platforms, came to the public markets in the form of an IPO as Facebook. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. And by extension, so many people who are Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And then in 2012, I think Berkshire Hathaway initiated its buybacks with a cap, which is, you know, that they will do buybacks as long as the price was less than intrinsic value. You’re accountable to shareholders. This is a conglomerate in the 1970s. RITHOLTZ: He was not a fan. DAMODARAN: He was a big dividend person.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

sold $133 billion worth of stock from the portfolio he manages for the conglomerate. The conglomerate previously owned nearly $1 billion worth of the company but sold off the position between 2020 and 2021. Sirius XM management shared its 2025 outlook with investors earlier in December, disappointing many shareholders.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

And finally, we returned $9 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. And in our on-premises server business, we expect revenue to decline in the low to mid-single digits on a prior year comparable that benefited from purchasing ahead of Windows Server 2012 end of support. We're not a conglomerate here.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So when I think of GE in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the three things that come up; GE Capital, obviously; the rise of shareholder value, which a lot of people point to General Electric as a key driver of that; and then Six Sigma. COHAN: — and shareholder value. He had shareholders eating out of the palm of his hands.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO has sold more equities from the conglomerate's investment portfolio than he's added to it in each of the last eight quarters. Sign Up For Free Buffett first invested in Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) in 2012, and at the time of this writing, the shares have gone on to increase by at least 325% since then.

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