Buffett Retires at 96, Outlasting Munger by 3 Years: 'The Architect and the Machine'
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-09-19
With tongue in cheek, the author salutes Warren Buffett's retirement at 96 — three years longer than his late partner Charlie Munger, joking he was "a total slacker."
He calls the duo possibly the most important American businessmen of the last 50 years — "the architect and the machine" — placing them in a lineage from Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and Ford to Walton, Jobs and Gates, and wishing today's tech entrepreneurs all break 100 while they keep building.
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