Fortune magazine has a great profile on David Sokol, Warren Buffett’s Mr. Fix-It: Buffett first met Sokol in 1999 when Berkshire was buying MidAmerican, the Iowa utility. With longtime Buffett friend Walter Scott, Sokol had bought a small, $28-million-a-year geothermal business in 1991 and built it into that utility powerhouse. MidAmerican, headquartered in Des Moines, [...]
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Fortune on David Sokol
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