Snapshot · My First Million
Mohnish Pabrai paid $650,000 to have lunch with Warren Buffett in 2007, when his own net worth had hit $84 million largely thanks to Buffett's intellectual framework.
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By 2007, Mohnish Pabrai's net worth had reached $84 million, and he felt a genuine debt he could not repay: almost all of it had come from applying Warren Buffett's intellectual framework, which he'd gotten for free. The charity lunch auction was his chance to at least look Buffett in the eye and say thank you. When the day arrived, Buffett had spent the intervening year studying the bios of every attendee and arrived with a full afternoon cleared. He opened with a characteristic act of generosity: 'Whenever you get sick and tired of me, just let me know and I'll leave.' What followed was over 50 questions, Buffett converting even mundane queries into wisdom, including an innocuous question about Rick Guerin that became the episode's most important investing lesson.
Rick Guerin was as good as Buffett and Munger. He was just in a hurry. Margin calls during the 1973-74 crash forced him to sell his Berkshire shares to Buffett for $40 each. They're worth over $700,000 today. Avoid leverage or risk joining Rick.
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