Such a joy to meet so many of you at the FT Weekend Festival last Saturday. After a heretical column after Warren Buffett announced his retirement in May, I feared being lynched on stage. Thankfully, even his most devoted fans are as cuddly as the man himself.
There were plenty of hard questions, though, both during my presentation as well as outside afterwards (where real concerns tend to be aired). If I were to summarise them for the education of readers who weren’t there, I’d say they fell into two buckets.
First, literally hundreds of people came up to me and screamed: “Where is that bloody valuation spreadsheet you promised to email us months ago?” Fair cop. I had to apologise all day, explaining the problem over and over again.