Warren buffett biography fortune 500

(1930-)

Who Is Warren Buffett?

Warren Buffett demonstrated keen business abilities at a young age. He formed Buffett Partnership Ltd. in 1956, and by 1965 he had assumed control of Berkshire Hathaway.

Overseeing the growth of a conglomerate with holdings in the media, insurance, energy and food and beverage industries, Buffett became one of the world's richest men and a celebrated philanthropist.

Early Life

Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Buffett's father, Howard, worked as a stockbroker and served as a U.S. congressman.

Warren buffett biography fortune 500

His mother, Leila Stahl Buffett, was a homemaker. Buffett was the second of three children and the only boy. He demonstrated a knack for financial and business matters early in his childhood: Friends and acquaintances have said the young boy was a mathematical prodigy who could add large columns of numbers in his head, a talent he occasionally demonstrated in his later years.

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