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Buffett turned Berkshire into a 55,000x stock by buying “wonderful companies at fair prices.”
Then he wrote down the trustee instructions for his family’s inheritance: 90% in an S&P 500 index fund, 10% in short-term government bonds.
73% of you are Team Index. 9.5% are Team Stock Picker.
The other 17.5% are hedging, which the Oracle of Omaha would also respect.
Speaking of Monopoly money, enjoy today’s Strategy Screenshot on Hasbro.
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Anything you refused to pack away as a kid came in a Hasbro box:
Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble, The Game of Life, Risk, Battleship, Connect 4, Operation, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Jenga, Twister, Nerf, Transformers, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, Play-Doh, Mr. Potato Head, Furby, Beyblade.
In 2022, Magic: The Gathering became Hasbro's first $1B brand ($1B+ revenue in 1 year).
4 years later, it's just crossed $1.63B over 9 months (on track for ~$2.2B this year).
That's a card game doing more revenue than the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots (#1 and #2 highest-earning NFL teams) combined.
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The set that broke Magic's revenue record - The Hobbit became the 4th best-selling Magic set ever, and organised play is up 40%+ on 2025.
The plan for life beyond 1 card game - where Hasbro's roughly $1B of video game spending is going, and what has worked so far.
How Hasbro picks which games to build - about 1 in 10 concepts reaches pre-production, says its CEO.
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Data source for today's Screenshot: Hasbro Q3 2026 earnings release
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