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"In June, Mr. Buffett told The Wall Street Journal that the Gates Foundation would not receive any more money after his death.
Other factors further strained the friendship between Mr. Gates and Mr. Buffett. The Gates Foundation had settled into a groove and even become complacent, Mr. Buffett told staffers, which reduced its appetite for taking the kinds of risks that could lead to more effective philanthropy, and that he had hoped his donations would be used for. He was also upset by comments relayed to him by others who had found Mr. Gates rude and condescending, according to multiple accounts. Mr. Buffett had long offered Mr. Gates advice on how to be a friend: Be aware of how your closest friends think of you, Mr. Buffett would tell Mr. Gates, and be good to them.
When this reporter suggested to Mr. Buffett in April that Mr. Gates’s “genuine ‘laugh out loud’ moments are when he’s around you,” he replied, “We have had a huge number of laughs together, and he has a keen sense of humor.”
Nearly every year since starting his GatesNotes blog in 2010, Mr. Gates has posted at least one goofy video of him and Mr. Buffett together or written a brief essay celebrating an aspect of their friendship. But he did not write a single entry solely about his friend in 2021, 2022 or 2023."
A few on this board have speculated that the relationship between Mr. Buffett had soured. It seems there may have been some substance to that speculation.
