The Berkshire Hathaway chairman shunned tech stocks.
Shareholders are happy now.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. He then stepped to the plate. Gibson, perhaps nervous about beaning the U.S.'s fourth-richest man, sent his first toss into the dirt and the second one wide. The batter swung at neither. He waited for his pitch, ripping a grounder up the third-base line. Even at age 70, after passing on the dot-com boom and enduring taunts that he had lost his touch, Buffett proved he could still connect.