How Long Have you been a Continuous Shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway?

[MarioP]

I bought my first B share at the IPO (1996) going against Warren recommandation. Never regrets it. 
 

I wanted to buy an A share before that but it was worth more than my entire portfolio and growing faster.

 

For the first time since that purchase novembre 2025 saw another stock as the biggest % of my porfolio. Between some selling and FFH growth this one is now my biggest position

[dymanojbabu]

2018 Since I opened Robinhood account. 

[focused1]

Early 30s.  In March 2020, I had just spent the last six months negotiating a NAV based financing deal to get a lender on the hook to fund new investments at significant % of our private equity fund’s NAV as dry powder in advance of what I thought would be a market correction.   I was the first investment team employee and was all in on making this work come hell or high water hoping to get carry in the next fundraise when this all paid off.     I spent two entire March days in a sweaty conference room pitching the lender why our private oil deals were worth multiples of what the lender thought they would be worth and walking through years of deal making rationale.   The market crashed further that week and the financing deal never happened as the lender may not have even had their own funding locked up. My career track in PE torpedoed but I didn’t know it yet. The next day they announced that de blasio was considering a city wide quarantine and someone on the news said they might close the bridges.  That sounded too much like a bad Batman movie for our liking.  My wife and I decided to get in an uber to my parent’s house in the burbs and never returned to the apartment except to move out.   The following week we put 100% of our cash pile (literally our entire net worth other than what was locked up in my PE fund at work- we had avoided making investments at the “top”) in Berkshire Hathaway shares sitting at the kitchen table in my childhood home.   Our cost basis overall is just a little bit under $160.      A portion of the gains since then paid for my wife to go to an ivy league business school with no debt at the end. We still own shares in retirement accounts that we bought from that time.   Since then, my investments have been more focused in more under the radar companies because Berkshire is no longer the value it once was. Still an oil investor. 

[longlake95]

May 2003. I think it was a Tuesday. 

[John Hjorth]

I'm pretty sure the first time I bought Berkshire was a thursday. 

 

No matter the weekday, you may have done well, if you've been holding on, @longlake95!  

[longlake95]

Yes, I’ve held every share and added along the way too. It’s been a true rock of Gibraltar for my family. Ever grateful. 

[DooDiligence]

A little Edith Piaf seems appropriate about now.

 

 

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For some reason this popped up when I was searching for Edith Piaf.

 

 

[John Hjorth]

13 minutes ago, longlake95 said:

Yes, I’ve held every share and added along the way too. It’s been a true rock of Gibraltar for my family. Ever grateful. 

 

It seems to be working satisfactorily, over time. The key so far has been patience of the holder.

[villainx]

3 hours ago, focused1 said:

Early 30s.  In March 2020, I had just spent the last six months negotiating a NAV based financing deal to get a lender on the hook to fund new investments at significant % of our private equity fund’s NAV as dry powder in advance of what I thought would be a market correction.   I was the first investment team employee and was all in on making this work come hell or high water hoping to get carry in the next fundraise when this all paid off.     I spent two entire March days in a sweaty conference room pitching the lender why our private oil deals were worth multiples of what the lender thought they would be worth and walking through years of deal making rationale.   The market crashed further that week and the financing deal never happened as the lender may not have even had their own funding locked up. My career track in PE torpedoed but I didn’t know it yet. The next day they announced that de blasio was considering a city wide quarantine and someone on the news said they might close the bridges.  That sounded too much like a bad Batman movie for our liking.  My wife and I decided to get in an uber to my parent’s house in the burbs and never returned to the apartment except to move out.   The following week we put 100% of our cash pile (literally our entire net worth other than what was locked up in my PE fund at work- we had avoided making investments at the “top”) in Berkshire Hathaway shares sitting at the kitchen table in my childhood home.   Our cost basis overall is just a little bit under $160.      A portion of the gains since then paid for my wife to go to an ivy league business school with no debt at the end. We still own shares in retirement accounts that we bought from that time.   Since then, my investments have been more focused in more under the radar companies because Berkshire is no longer the value it once was. Still an oil investor. 

 

 

Good story!  BRK was a covid purchase for me too but rather unmemorable buy decision then.