 Once again, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and children of all ages. This is Prince Dax, the Prince of Invest, and coming to you guys and girls live all the way from the beautiful state of Denver, Colorado, but via Hollywood, Hawaii. Don't forget to hit that like, subscribe, comment, and share button. And as always, I don't have a lot of time, and I definitely know you guys and girls don't have a lot of time, so we're going to jump straight into it. So this episode or this show is going to be about what you can see in the description box. This is about meeting and dinner with the iconic, greatest investor of all time, Mr. Warren Buffett. Now, I try to do this on my live on my YouTube channel the other day, and my microphone wouldn't let me be great. So now I'm doing it here in Hawaii, and I'm pretty sure to cut my wells so you can hear it back over the podcast, over YouTube, and catching it live right here on Theme Tech Hawaii. Now, before I jump straight into the meat of it, I kind of want to tell you the history of myself, not really myself, but I'm going to talk about what led up to meeting Mr. Buffett, why did I meet with him, what happened, what I took away from him, and everything. But first, let me start off with the people who may not know me, who never heard of me of seeing anything that I've done. My name is Prince Dykes, and I've been going to Berkshire, I've been to three Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting held in Omaha, Nebraska. How I got hooked into that, I was doing a podcast interview, I was in Japan doing a podcast interview by the name of someone, by the name of Dr. Anna McCoy. She called me and she was doing an interview on my podcast, and while I was doing an interview on the podcast, she turned around and she said, hey, you know, you should try to get around Warren Buffett. And I was like, yeah, all these books I've read, all the financial investing books I've read always have DNA of Warren Buffett, I went back to Warren Buffett. So I always was wondering, I said, you know, how do you get close to him? You know, he had got the title, the richest man in the world for a while, and he's the richest investor ever, but he was the richest man in the world for a while, then Bill Gates kind of took the title from him, now Jeff Bezos happens. So he's like number three, or whatever it keeps him being. And she was like, yeah, I went there and Warren Buffett and Bill Gates was there, and you should try to get next to him. And I said, okay, I will, you know, find this out. So for all you guys out there, you know, you heard a 10K report, you heard me talk about the 10K, the annual report. One of the annual report, it tells you everything about a company, phone numbers, addresses, what the company does, all that stuff that you follow the SEC. So what I did was, I picked up the phone, I called the office and I left a voicemail. And I said, hey, I would like to, you know, come to one of these meetings, when is the next meeting, what I got to do to come there, and can I, most importantly, can I bring my cameras and do a documentary on my time there? And I think they, I got an email back asking me more about myself. I got an email back asking me for my security background investigation. I was asking for a couple of things, right? And a long story short, they ended up approving me to come and they gave me press access for my first ever Berkshire meeting. Now, at this time, here I am in Hollywood, Hawaii, living in Pearl City. And I had never been in Nebraska. I had never been to Omaha. I had never been to a shareholders meeting. I didn't know if I could find anybody that had gone. All I heard was the stories. And I just went on a limb. I said, hey, you know what? Let me just go and see what happens. So it was very new, very new to me. I just went for the first time back in 2017. I just flew out there, got me a hotel, didn't know up from down. They mailed the package to my house and I went out there and I was moving around just to see what I can find. I get there and I find, you know, from eating at Grant's Steakhouse. I kind of grabbed Steakhouse Shoutout to Gene Dunn, the owner of the Steakhouse that Buffett goes to like weekly. And I met some people there that really knew them, that really knew people at Berkshire and I thought it was amazing. And they gave me some great interviews. And I met more people at Berkshire. I go back my second year in 2018. Last year I even meet more people, right? And I go back this year. This is my third year. And by being my third year, I want to show you guys something. For the people that really follow me, you already know this, right? So, you know, I've written two books. So now my third book is coming out and I only had one copy pressed. And this is the only copy printed in the world right now. Well, it's another one, but we'll get into that. But it's my new book that's getting ready to come out titled, Wesley Learns About Insurance. The first of his kind featuring guest starring, Danfield Hall of Famer, Terrell Davis, you know, iconic Denver Bronco running back. And so I wanted to show this to the people at Berkshire. So, one of the guys there said, hey, how about let's go have a burger and let's talk about your books. So I went there to have a burger and we're sitting there talking and this lady comes up, this older lady, she comes up and she joins us. And I didn't think nothing about it. I think, oh, maybe this is Auntie, Mom, or, you know, cousin, whatever the case may be. I didn't give it that much of a thought. So we're all talking and she's asking me about my books and I show her the book. I said, you know, I show my first book, my second book. So excited about my third book of it coming out. And we're talking, we're talking about 15 minutes or so. And she says, you know, hey, come with me. And the next thing I know, I'm on the elevator and I get off the elevator and it says Berkshire Hathaway. And I look at the sign, I'm like, whoa, man. Cause I knew where I was because I always knew the building. And I walk into this building, they escort me into this building. It wasn't a building, it was a room or I would say office. And they get there and everybody comes out and they're talking to me and I'm meeting people from Berkshire. And when I do that, you know, I remember some of the names, all my Buffett heads out there, I like to call them a Buffett head or Berkshire head. You read the annual report, you always hear these names Ted and Todd. You always hear about these names, oh, Ted did this, Todd did that. These are supposed to be like the successors of Warren Buffett. And they're there with me. They're like, hey, I'm Ted, hey, I'm Todd. You know, so I'm picking up on who their names are. I'm picking up on all of the good stuff. And they say, you know, they take me back to this room, I walk in the office and this older guy stands up, he extends his hand, he says, hi, I'm Warren. And, you know, obviously it's Warren Buffett. And I'm just standing there like, and I spoke to his humility that he said that, you know, hi, I'm Warren Buffett. And like everybody knows who you are. I was, I've been coming in for years. I've been studying Warren Buffett. Everybody knew I was the biggest Warren Buffett fan. And for him to have a humility, not to even think like, hey, you know, oh, this guy's gonna know who I am. You know, who is this or whatever. He knew, he said, hey, hi, I'm Warren. And, you know, they tell him, they say, hey, well, no, this is Prince Dykes. These are the books he's written. This is what he's been doing. No, we've been following him for years. And Mr. Buffett says, yes, you know, I saw these books and I realized that, you know, he didn't say he realized, but he just said that, hey, I could use this as a child. And I said, well, how cool is, you know, how cool is that, you know? And, you know, they say, hey, you know what? He said, can I have these? I said, sure, Mr. Buffett, definitely you could have them. And he goes to take them and then he starts to write in them. Now, once he starts to write in them, I had to change everything. I said, Mr. Buffett, what I'll do with respect, none of you have written in these books. I'm gonna have to take them back from you because I'm gonna frame them. I'm gonna take these books which I'll probably work on maybe next weekend when I get some free time, sit down and kind of have somebody design a frame for me to hang up. You know, to me, having the greatest financial mind to ever live that I've been studying and analyzing for years to set back and sign my work in his office at his desk was just mind blowing. You know, and they're taking pictures and, you know, like they're showing now, him signing the books. You know, he's writing letters to me and my son. He's like, hey, Wesley and Prince, you know, what a great pair. And he's saying, you know, I really like this. You know, he's telling Wesley, you know, hey, dad is cool. Like they're showing him displayed on the screen. And that to me, you know, Prince and Wesley, the Denver Dynamic Duo. I mean, to me, that was just so iconic, you know, to actually standing in his office and for him to sign these books and practically, you know, endorse me right there in front of his office on video with the pictures, everything. So I'm just kind of in awe at the moment. I'm just like, man, I can't believe this is happening. And I thought I was just supposed to go grab some burgers and they say, you know, I'm in Buffett's office. And they say, well, you know, let's give you a tour of the building. Well, it wasn't a building, it was their office. So they proceeded to give me a tour. I mean, everything in there is Buffett, Charlie Munger, Bill Gates to, you know, the history of the company. It was just, you know, I'm just, you know, they're like, hey, you can record, you can take pictures. And I just couldn't really, I was trying to grasp everything that was going on. I just couldn't grasp everything that was just like, you know, I was a, I would say I was starstruck because to give a little backdrop of the story, me and my buddy used to always talk about, he said, man, I think you're gonna meet, you know, get a picture with Warren one day. And I thought meeting him was like, you know, everybody wants to meet with him, right? His, to meet with him, I think, he raises like $3 million a year for lunch. You know, people pay, that goes to Charlie, like $3 million a year goes to lunch just to have a meeting with him. So I figured, hey, you know, meeting him is out of the question, but grabbing a picture one day, I want to grab a picture with Warren Buffett. I think that'd be so cool. You know, like hanging up on my wall, man, that'd be, you know, the best thing ever. Right? And I never thought that I thought I had an opportunity I thought I had an opportunity the first year I didn't. I thought I had an opportunity the second year I didn't. The third year, you know, it didn't happen again until like two days after the meeting, you know, I never thought that I'd be in his office in his at Berkshire Hathaway headquarters. And I kind of Warren Buffett's office, not that I got a chance to just get a picture with him. I got a chance to actually meet him. And, you know, he's actually signing my stuff, taking pictures and video. That was just, man, I was just taking, I had never, you know, thought that would happen. I thought I would get that close or whatever the case would be. But it was definitely very humbling. So he'd take me around the office and, you know, I'd go into the break room. I don't know if you've heard of C's Candy. You know, it's mostly kind of seen in like airports and malls. And with the C's Candy, he says, hey, do you care to, what are you telling him? He said, you know, do you want some C's Candy? And I took the candy. I was taking everything off of water, you know, Coca Cola products. And I took all of this stuff because, not because I was hungry or I wanted, it was like souvenirs to me. I'm like, to get C's Candy from Berkshire Hathaway, I'm gonna go home and put this in the envelope. Well, I didn't put it in the envelope. I put it in a Ziploc bag. You know, they gave me a blanket. I took everything that they potentially had. So those were the things that I took away from it. The next thing I realized I did was, after, you know, he says, hey, you wanna go to dinner? What are you doing tonight? And, you know, they offered me to go to dinner with them. And I'm like, of course. Yeah, my schedule is wide open. I'll be there. So then out to dinner, I go, I'm gonna end up meeting them at the restaurant. It was a regular restaurant. They was meeting Becky Quick from CNBC. So I go there, it's Mr. Buffett, Ms. Buffett, Becky Quick in a bodyguard. And I'm there and we're sitting down eating. We're sitting down and eating with Mr. Buffett. And, you know, we're talking and he's, when I'm learning from him is that, you know, it's all about people, study people first, keep the family first, things like that, right? And as we're noticing, people are, we're seeing more and more people kind of show up and more and more people are around. And the bodyguard is telling them, hey, he's not gonna take any pictures, not gonna sign anything. And essentially they said, hey, can you grab, can you go take the keys and grab the car? We need to get Mr. Buffett out of here on the side patio. So I went and did it. And that was my last time seeing him, you know. But, you know, that day was just monumental, crazy. And people always ask me, Prince, how do you get a meeting with Buffett? How do you, I don't know how you do it. You don't get a meeting with Buffett, Buffett gets a meeting with you, right? So those are the big things that I learned. Those are my big takeaways that I really loved about meeting him, sitting down with lunch with him. And, you know, for him I practically endorsed what I have been doing for years. So I mean, it was a great experience, you know, life-changing event, I would say the least. So that was my meeting and that was my dinner with the iconic Best Investing World, Warren Buffett. But before I get out of here, I'm gonna show you three downsides to meeting Warren Buffett. These are the three downsides to meeting Warren Buffett. One, everybody thinks that I'm super duper connected to Warren Buffett, that we talk every single night, that I just hang out with him or whatever the case may be. Definitely not the case, right? And with that being said, they want me to do all type of crazy favors. Hey, give me a meeting with Warren, tell him about my business, tell him about it. No, I don't know Warren like that. But when people see you in his office, they say he doesn't meet with anybody, you gotta know somebody. So that was the downside. The second downside was, he completely overshadowed my next book. You know, I was like, man, Terrell Davis, in my book, this is gonna be my next book, man, it's gonna be the biggest thing I ever done. But then sitting down with Warren Buffett and him added onto my storyline, he kind of overshadowed what I was doing. Number three, after you meet and get endorsed and get invited to dinner and lunch with Warren Buffett, who else can I possibly want to meet? You know, especially in that financial investing world, who else's opinion really, really, really matters? Right? When I get Warren Buffett, it's like, wow, who else is really there? So, but I'm glad it happened. But those are three downsides. Everybody asked me to always ask me about the upside. Nobody talk about the downside. But yes, and then thanks to him, I'm now in the bookstore, the Bookworm in Omaha, the Bookworm in Omaha. If you're in Omaha, Nebraska, go there, grab those books, check them out because I wanna stay there. You know, I wanna show what we have with the man and things like that. So his bookstore, I don't think it is a bookstore exactly, but bookstore he works with very well, they put in the order for all of my books. So that was pretty monumental. Hopefully next year when I go back to Omaha, I'll be signing books at the Bookworm in Omaha and Berkshire Hathaway, Fingers Cross. We'll see what happens. But yeah, very iconic moment. You know, me being from a small town of Wainsboro, Georgia, to coming up to meet the greatest investor, the richest investor to ever live, the best is ever done in Icon, not to only meet him, but to be in his office, to be escorted by his office, to go have dinner with him and to pretty much endorsement and tell me, hey, you're on the right track. You're doing the right things. You know, give me those nuggets of life from him and his team telling me, hey, you know, and I asked him, I said, why me? Well, what made you guys do this to me and whatnot? And they say, hey, we feel as though you're a good person. You know, we can tell that you're a good person. We can tell that, you know, things like that. So I don't know, crazy day. But anyway, I'm not gonna take up too much time. That's my time. 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