How Did You Pitch Yourself to Warren Buffett?

"We should be very grateful for all the failures and stumbles that we have," says Warren Buffett. "Digital disruptors had was still going on but I was just trying to figure out what am I doing next." In early 99, when you were leaving your IT business he wrote a letter asking to work for free for him. He said good luck reorganizing your life I am not the answer so how did you pitch yourself then?