That turned out to be a billion-dollar development, as Berkshire’s shares delivered a fortune to early investors. Ruth Gottesman, 93, joined the Einstein faculty in 1968, not long after her late husband met Buffett. “She never said goodbye to her parents and she didn’t know whether they would be alive after the war," Ruth Gottesman once said. Meanwhile, she met Sandy Gottesman in 1948 and they married in 1950, when he graduated from business school and went to work on Wall Street. Buffett pledged in 2006 to donate all of his Berkshire shares to philanthropy and said in 2021 that he was halfway there.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 02, 2024 14:08 UTC