Snapshots of an amazing friendship

I don’t remember the exact day I first met most of my friends, but with Warren Buffett I do. It was 25 years ago today: July 5, 1991.

The date stands out in my mind so clearly because it marked the beginning of a new and unexpected friendship for Melinda and me—one that has changed our lives for the better in every imaginable way.

Warren has helped us do two things that are impossible to overdo in one lifetime: learn more and laugh more.

Over the last quarter-century of our friendship, we’ve done a lot of both.

Warren and I may seem like a mismatch. I’m a technology nerd. He’s an investor who doesn’t use email. In 1991, when my mother called me to come out to our vacation home on Hood Canal to meet Warren, I wasn’t very interested in meeting him. Eventually, my mother convinced me to come. I agreed to stay for two hours. But then I met Warren. He asked me these amazingly good questions about the software business nobody had asked me before. Two hours passed. And then hours and hours more. It was a deep friendship from our very first conversation.