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semiquaver | 11 days ago

Berkshire Hathaway has my favorite website (or, WEB page, as they style it) of any big company: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

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meindnoch|11 days ago

  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828">
*Jurassic Park taking off glasses.gif*

tharkun__|11 days ago

I mean, what did you expect?

    Copyright © 1978-2025 Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

chickensong|11 days ago

Incredibly clear and direct. Amazing to see a big company like that keeping it so old school. Thanks for pointing it out!

pseudohadamard|10 days ago

And it looks the same with and without Javascript enabled. Unlike 99% of all web sites which are anything from shite through to blank pages without JS.

scottious|11 days ago

I half expected to see an "under construction" gif and a "powered by GeoCities" tag at the bottom

forinti|11 days ago

It's definitely missing a website hits counter.

DANmode|11 days ago

Why?

This doesn’t give the vibes of an amateur personal site - it’s a timeless business site.

leapingdog|11 days ago

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

This brings back some (unpleasant) memories.

But otherwise I admire the minimalism.

xnx|10 days ago

99/100 Lighthouse performance score.

Good reminder that every web page starts off fast by default and is only made slow by designers and frameworks.

interactivecode|10 days ago

Correction designers and frameworks don’t build websites the engineers do

meyum33|10 days ago

My first visit to the Berkshire Hathaway website a few years ago literally changed my life. I was immediately attracted. I went to search Buffett and went down the rabbit hole of shareholder meetings clips and value investing and index investing. I am so much richer mentally and financially now thanks to the random visit to this website.

JTbane|11 days ago

My god, static text with no graphics!? In 2026!?

tim333|11 days ago

They have a long tradition of keeping it simple going back long before the web. The annual reports had no pictures or puffery unlike most companies, though much better writing.

DANmode|11 days ago

Except geicoimg.gif, lol

I almost want to let Warren know he could have an entire extra egg McMuffin per year if he switches to SVG rendering of the Geico logo on the site.

weichi|11 days ago

"If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response."

buildbot|11 days ago

I wonder how much Geico payed for that add placement…

anana_|11 days ago

They own GEICO...

ewild|11 days ago

he owns geico

enmyj|11 days ago

it's certainly fast!!