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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates play ping pong.
Gates' charity, The Gates Foundation, was gifted shares of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway worth almost $30 billion back 2006 and Buffett serves as a trustee of the Foundation.
In a tweet on Tuesday morning, Gates highlighted out what he thinks is the most important section of Buffett's latest letter to shareholders, the 50th edition of the widely circulated letter.
Gates links to page 23 of the letter, where Buffett walks through the earliest days of Berkshire (as well as the "monumentally stupid" decision Buffett made over $0.125 back in 1964).
In a YouTube video posted Sunday, Gates talks a bit about why he likes this passage from the letter so much - it's about the history of Buffett the investor and Berkshire the company.
In the video, Gates says that what works about what he calls the "Berkshire system" is that is maximizes the potential of businesses by giving them autonomy as well as the explicit support of the whole Berkshire organization, even if mistakes are made.
Gates added that, "What really struck me this time about the letter was the value of experience. [Buffett] is better today than ever because he's seen so many businesses and he understands business profitability so incredibly well," and says this is the most important annual letter Buffett has ever written.
Read Buffett's full letter here »