Warren Buffett, 96 years old, stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway’s board on September 18, 2026, after sixty years at the helm of the conglomerate. His son Howard G. Buffett succeeded him as chairman, while Greg Abel remains CEO. This long-planned transition marks the end of an era for one of the world’s most important financial empires. The irony of his departure: the man who repeatedly dismissed Bitcoin over more than ten years had quietly invested $750 million in Nu Holdings (Nubank’s parent company), a Brazilian neobank offering cryptocurrency trading, with the stake valued at approximately $1.2 billion as of Q3 2024.
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