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		4death4 on Nov 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Charlie Munger has died The current CEO of See's is Pat Egan. Prior to this, Egan was an SVP at NV Energy, another Berkshire company. It's a pretty crazy coincidence that the CEO of See's would be an existing Berkshire employee if Berkshire had no influence in how the company was run.

nojito on Nov 29, 2023 [–]

They kept Chuck until he retired. If they wanted to influence sees they would have replaced him the moment they bought it.

Additionally buying Sees is what proved their model of investing in well run companies is a worthwhile strategy in the first place.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/08/chuck-...

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