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Warren Buffett's Successor Greg Abel Has Poured More Than $20 Billion of Berkshire Hathaway's Cash Into Alphabet. This May Be Why.

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July 8, 2026

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Berkshire's new CEO is making one of the boldest bets of the post-Buffett era.

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The Motley Fool

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· Jun 24, 2026

Move Over, Coca-Cola: Warren Buffett's Successor, Greg Abel, Has a New No. 3 Holding at Berkshire Hathaway

There's a new apple of Greg Abel's eye at Berkshire Hathaway.

Entrepreneur.com

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· Jul 8, 2026

Inspired By His Dad’s 1990s eBay Business, He’s Flipping Products Into Millions of Dollars a Year: ‘I Was Hooked On Selling’

Nick Bruni always liked the idea of being his own boss.

Economic Times

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· Jul 11, 2026

Will Google be Berkshire CEO Greg Abel's best stock pick after predecessor Warren Buffett's Apple bet?

After taking over the reign as Berkshire Hathaway CEO in January this year, Greg Abel began putting the company’s record cash pile of nearly 400 billion to work. At the centre of this shift in strategy is Google-parent Alphabet.

TechCrunch

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· Jun 24, 2026

Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status

Right now he's merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.

Upworthy

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· Jun 22, 2026

22-year-old forgoes buying a home and spends his life savings on a chunk of raw Colombian jungle

People are floored that he was able to use his 40,000 in savings to create such a dream life. The post 22-year-old forgoes buying a home and spends his life savings on a chunk of raw Colombian jungle appeared first on Upworthy.

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· Jun 24, 2026

Elon Musk’s trillionaire status slips as SpaceX shares swing

He is now worth an estimated 962 billion dollars (£731.4 billion), as of the end of the day on Tuesday, Forbes said.

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