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@2LynnQuillasxnv No wonder he works like he does. He's been doing hard things since he was 9
At 9, Jensen Huang cleaned toilets for 100 teenage boys at a Kentucky school where kids settled fights with knives. Decades later he gave that school $2 million.
He was born in Taiwan. When he was 5, his father got a job opening an oil refinery in Thailand, and the family moved there.
Then a coup broke out. His parents decided Jensen and his older brother would be safer in America.
The boys went to live with an uncle in Tacoma, Washington, who found them a boarding school.
"Kentucky, of all places."
The dorms had no locks. Older kids smoked.
Every student had a job. Jensen was the youngest kid on campus, and he got the bathrooms. His brother worked in the school's tobacco fields.
His parents couldn't afford international calls. Every month they mailed cassette tapes with their voices from Thailand. The boys recorded over them and sent them back.
About two years later the family was finally together again. They settled in Oregon, where his father worked as an engineer building paper mills and chip factories.
In 2019 Jensen and his wife made that $2 million gift. Today a dormitory at the school carries his name.
What do you think shaped him more, that school or his parents?
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Nicole Buffett was 4 when Warren Buffett became her grandfather. One TV interview later, he wrote that he never was.
Her mother married Peter Buffett, Warren’s youngest son. Peter adopted Nicole and her twin sister.
They grew up inside the family. Christmas gatherings, holidays, a crisp $100 bill from Grandpa Warren when she was 5.
Susan Buffett, Warren’s first wife, bought Nicole’s paintings and called her one of her adored grandchildren in her will.
The rules were clear. Warren paid for college and art school. Nothing else.
When Nicole called his office for help with a futon for her student apartment, his secretary answered: you know what the rules are, school expenses only.
Then came a documentary.
In The One Percent, a film about American wealth made by a Johnson & Johnson heir, Nicole spoke on camera. Her grandfather covered her education. After school, no money from the family. She worked organizing toys for a wealthy family in San Francisco.
She said money was the spoke in her grandfather’s wheel of life.
Then she went on Oprah. She said she was at peace with not inheriting, but felt completely excluded. She had asked him for money for school trips and was turned down, because it would set her apart from the other grandchildren.
About a month after the falling out, a letter arrived, signed Warren.
I have not emotionally or legally adopted you as a grandchild. Nor have the rest of my family adopted you as a niece or a cousin.
She told Marie Claire it was devastating.
A few years earlier, at the family Christmas party, Warren had shown up in a red tracksuit and a Santa hat. Nicole hugged him.
It was the last time.
In 2008 she was living on about $40,000 a year from her paintings, with no health insurance.
Buffett has always said he wants to leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
Nicole never asked for a fortune. She asked to be family.
Was Buffett protecting his principles, or did he punish her for telling the truth?
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Nicole Buffett was 4 when Warren Buffett became her grandfather. One TV interview later, he wrote that he never was.
Her mother married Peter Buffett, Warren’s youngest son. Peter adopted Nicole and her twin sister.
They grew up inside the family. Christmas gatherings, holidays, a crisp $100 bill from Grandpa Warren when she was 5.
Susan Buffett, Warren’s first wife, bought Nicole’s paintings and called her one of her adored grandchildren in her will.
The rules were clear. Warren paid for college and art school. Nothing else.
When Nicole called his office for help with a futon for her student apartment, his secretary answered: you know what the rules are, school expenses only.
Then came a documentary.
In The One Percent, a film about American wealth made by a Johnson & Johnson heir, Nicole spoke on camera. Her grandfather covered her education. After school, no money from the family. She worked organizing toys for a wealthy family in San Francisco.
She said money was the spoke in her grandfather’s wheel of life.
Then she went on Oprah. She said she was at peace with not inheriting, but felt completely excluded. She had asked him for money for school trips and was turned down, because it would set her apart from the other grandchildren.
About a month after the falling out, a letter arrived, signed Warren.
I have not emotionally or legally adopted you as a grandchild. Nor have the rest of my family adopted you as a niece or a cousin.
She told Marie Claire it was devastating.
A few years earlier, at the family Christmas party, Warren had shown up in a red tracksuit and a Santa hat. Nicole hugged him.
It was the last time.
In 2008 she was living on about $40,000 a year from her paintings, with no health insurance.
Buffett has always said he wants to leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
Nicole never asked for a fortune. She asked to be family.
Was Buffett protecting his principles, or did he punish her for telling the truth?
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@Rodon111 100%. He negotiated with the principal, then took Jeff to his ranch every summer from 4 to 16.
Jeff Bezos’s mother was allowed to finish high school on two conditions: no activities and no locker. She was 17 and pregnant with the future founder of Amazon.
It was Albuquerque, 1964. The school wanted to kick Jackie out for being pregnant.
Her father went to bat for her. It is a public school, he told them, she gets to go. After a long negotiation the principal gave in, with those two conditions.
Her father said, done, we will take that deal.
She finished school with a baby. Then she signed up for night school and picked professors who would let her bring him to class. She showed up with two duffel bags, one full of textbooks and one full of diapers and bottles.
When Jeff was 4, she married Mike Bezos.
Mike had come to America from Cuba at 16, alone, as part of Operation Pedro Pan, shortly after Castro took over. He did not speak English. He was put up at a Catholic mission in Delaware, won a scholarship to college in Albuquerque, and met Jackie there.
He adopted her son. Bezos still says it plainly: my dad is my real dad, not my biological dad.
In 1995 those two people put $245,573 into their son’s internet bookstore. He told them there was a 70% chance they would lose all of it. They did it anyway.
Bezos calls it a fairy tale story. It started with a teenage mom who was not allowed a locker and a 16-year-old who arrived alone.
Jackie died in August 2025 at 78.
In the video below, he tells it himself.
Who in your family took the biggest bet on you?
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Jeff Bezos’s mother was allowed to finish high school on two conditions: no activities and no locker. She was 17 and pregnant with the future founder of Amazon.
It was Albuquerque, 1964. The school wanted to kick Jackie out for being pregnant.
Her father went to bat for her. It is a public school, he told them, she gets to go. After a long negotiation the principal gave in, with those two conditions.
Her father said, done, we will take that deal.
She finished school with a baby. Then she signed up for night school and picked professors who would let her bring him to class. She showed up with two duffel bags, one full of textbooks and one full of diapers and bottles.
When Jeff was 4, she married Mike Bezos.
Mike had come to America from Cuba at 16, alone, as part of Operation Pedro Pan, shortly after Castro took over. He did not speak English. He was put up at a Catholic mission in Delaware, won a scholarship to college in Albuquerque, and met Jackie there.
He adopted her son. Bezos still says it plainly: my dad is my real dad, not my biological dad.
In 1995 those two people put $245,573 into their son’s internet bookstore. He told them there was a 70% chance they would lose all of it. They did it anyway.
Bezos calls it a fairy tale story. It started with a teenage mom who was not allowed a locker and a 16-year-old who arrived alone.
Jackie died in August 2025 at 78.
In the video below, he tells it himself.
Who in your family took the biggest bet on you?
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@2LynnQuillasxnv Both are right tbh. Moats work until someone like Musk shows up
Warren Buffett told Elon Musk he wouldn't want to take him on in candy. Musk said he was super super serious about starting a candy company. Buffett's had already made over $2 billion on a $25 million bet.
It started on a Tesla earnings call. Musk said moats are lame. If your only defense against invading armies is a moat, you will not last long. What matters is the pace of innovation.
A moat is Buffett's word for whatever protects a business from competitors. A brand, low costs, loyal customers.
Days later the question was read to Buffett on stage in front of his shareholders. Is Elon right?
Charlie Munger went first. Warren does not intend to build an actual moat.
Buffett admitted that the pace has picked up and more moats are open to attack than before. You have to defend yours all the time.
He said Elon may turn things upside down in some areas. Then he added one line.
"I don't think he'd want to take us on in candy."
Berkshire owns See's Candies. Buffett bought it in 1972 for $25 million.
Musk fired back on Twitter. He was starting a candy company, and it was going to be amazing. Then he promised to build a moat and fill it with candy.
The candy company never happened.
See's has given Berkshire over $2 billion in pretax income, and it needed only about $40 million of investment along the way.
What protects a business better, a moat or the pace of innovation?
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@2LynnQuillasxnv Mine too. Maye said she’d rather be near her kids, and I kind of respect that.
Elon Musk’s mother says she would rather sleep in his garage than in a five-star hotel. She is 77 and she has done it.
She flew to Texas to visit him. They landed around midnight, and Elon went straight to bed.
His security team told her they had a lovely room for her at a hotel 45 minutes away. She said no. She had come to see her son, not a hotel.
She asked for a couch. There was no couch. There was a single bed in the garage.
She opened the door, looked at it and said, this one is mine.
She later posted about it. No food in the fridge. One towel in the shower, so she left it for Elon. She wrote that she was fine with it, because as a child she spent 3 weeks in the Kalahari Desert without a shower, and her parents had prepared her for this kind of luxury.
On stage in India she was asked how the richest man on earth could put his mother in a garage.
She said it was her choice. She has slept in a family garage before, and she would rather be close to her kids than stay in a five-star hotel and not see them.
Later in the same interview she said the media attacked Elon over the garage story. Nobody asked her if she wanted to sleep there.
Her words in the clip below.
Would you take the hotel or the garage?
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Elon Musk’s mother says she would rather sleep in his garage than in a five-star hotel. She is 77 and she has done it.
She flew to Texas to visit him. They landed around midnight, and Elon went straight to bed.
His security team told her they had a lovely room for her at a hotel 45 minutes away. She said no. She had come to see her son, not a hotel.
She asked for a couch. There was no couch. There was a single bed in the garage.
She opened the door, looked at it and said, this one is mine.
She later posted about it. No food in the fridge. One towel in the shower, so she left it for Elon. She wrote that she was fine with it, because as a child she spent 3 weeks in the Kalahari Desert without a shower, and her parents had prepared her for this kind of luxury.
On stage in India she was asked how the richest man on earth could put his mother in a garage.
She said it was her choice. She has slept in a family garage before, and she would rather be close to her kids than stay in a five-star hotel and not see them.
Later in the same interview she said the media attacked Elon over the garage story. Nobody asked her if she wanted to sleep there.
Her words in the clip below.
Would you take the hotel or the garage?
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After Bill Gates became friends with Warren Buffett, he began to diversify his portfolio and sold Microsoft shares.
Bill Gates' fortune today is 138 billion dollars, if he hadn't diversified it would be 1.33 trillion dollars.
In 1991 Bill Gates didn't want to meet Warren Buffett. His mother talked him into it. Buffett listened for hours and bought 100 shares of Microsoft.
Gates thought it would be a waste of time. He told his mother that Buffett just buys and sells pieces of paper, and agreed to stay two hours at most.
They ended up talking for hours.
Seven years later the two of them sat on a stage in front of business students in Seattle. The government was going after Microsoft over antitrust, and a student asked about it.
Buffett answered with the story of that first day.
He called Gates a terrific teacher. He called himself the world's biggest dummy on technology. He said Gates spent six or seven hours explaining the business to him, and explained it pretty darn well.
Then he admitted what he did with the lesson. He bought 100 shares, just to keep track of them.
He said it proves two things. First, that he has an IQ of about 50. Second, that he never thought Gates had a monopoly.
The room laughed.
Buffett never pretended it was a smart move. In the same talk he said he does not worry about missing Microsoft, because he never understood the business.
The most famous investor in the world got a private lesson from the man building the biggest software company on earth, and he stayed in his lane.
His words in the clip below.
Was that discipline, or the most expensive lesson he never used?
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In 1991 Bill Gates didn't want to meet Warren Buffett. His mother talked him into it. Buffett listened for hours and bought 100 shares of Microsoft.
Gates thought it would be a waste of time. He told his mother that Buffett just buys and sells pieces of paper, and agreed to stay two hours at most.
They ended up talking for hours.
Seven years later the two of them sat on a stage in front of business students in Seattle. The government was going after Microsoft over antitrust, and a student asked about it.
Buffett answered with the story of that first day.
He called Gates a terrific teacher. He called himself the world's biggest dummy on technology. He said Gates spent six or seven hours explaining the business to him, and explained it pretty darn well.
Then he admitted what he did with the lesson. He bought 100 shares, just to keep track of them.
He said it proves two things. First, that he has an IQ of about 50. Second, that he never thought Gates had a monopoly.
The room laughed.
Buffett never pretended it was a smart move. In the same talk he said he does not worry about missing Microsoft, because he never understood the business.
The most famous investor in the world got a private lesson from the man building the biggest software company on earth, and he stayed in his lane.
His words in the clip below.
Was that discipline, or the most expensive lesson he never used?
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Elon Musk and Larry Ellison once spent a dinner begging a man to take more of their money. That man was Jensen Huang, and he sells more than 80% of the world's AI chips.
The dinner was at Nobu in Palo Alto.
Two of the richest men in the world sat down with the one man who sells the chips they both need.
Nvidia controls more than 80% of the market for AI chips. Nobody builds a serious AI model without them.
So Ellison and Musk did not negotiate. They begged.
Ellison told the story himself in front of Oracle's analysts.
"Please take our money. No, no, take more of it."
He also made sure everyone knew he paid for dinner.
Then he said it worked.
His reason for begging was simple. He says getting there first is a big deal, and $100 billion is what it takes to get in the game.
Who holds the real power in AI, the men with the money or the man with the chips?
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@Rodon111 Yep. Trust is the one asset that doesn't compound back🥲
Bill Gates was asked about his biggest regret. He did not name a deal or a product. He named his divorce from Melinda after 27 years.
He said it would have to go at the top of the list. There are others, he said, but none that matter. He also said the divorce was miserable for both of them for at least two years.
Melinda had told her side in 2022, in her first TV interview about it. The first question was about the affair he had admitted to.
She did not attack him. She said she believes in forgiveness, and she thought they had worked through some of it.
Then she explained what actually ended it. It was not one moment or one specific thing. There came a point where there was enough that she realized it was not healthy, and she could not trust what they had.
She was asked if she had been angry. People look at her and think she has it all.
Her answer was that she had a lot of tears for many days. Days lying on the carpet, not knowing how she would get up. Days of anger. She called it grieving the loss of something she thought she would have for her whole life.
She could not trust the marriage anymore. He calls losing it the thing he regrets most.
Her words in the clip below.
Which is harder to live with, the broken trust or the regret?
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