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		pg on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buch... BH is more like a conglomerate than an investment firm. They're just a super-disciplined conglomerate, unlike the random ones that gave the term such a bad name in the 1970s.

dmv on Nov 12, 2010 [–]

More to the point, Berkshire Hathaway itself had only 19 employees as of the 2006 letter.

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