Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.

I'm Warren Buffett, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. I welcome you to this 2016 Annual Media of shareholders. This morning I introduced the Berkshire Hathaway Directors that are present. The name proxy holders for this meeting are Walter Scott and Mark Hamburg. There were 807,242 shares of Class A, Berkshire Hathaway common stock outstanding with each share entitled to one vote on motions considered at the meeting. $575,608 Class A shares and $772,724,950 Class B shares are represented at this meeting by proxies returned through Thursday evening April 28. It's a field that a lot of intelligent people are trying to get big in. And it's attempting something that