Blog post by David Elbert • February 8, 2010
University of Iowa student Samantha Lane enjoyed the wit, along with the wisdom, of Warren Buffett last Friday while riding shotgun with the billionaire investor to one of his favorite Omaha restaurants.
Lane and 19 other Iowa MBA candidates, along with finance professor Todd Houge, joined students from five other schools, including Dartmouth and Notre Dame, at Buffett’s office in Omaha.
At one point, the Iowa students persuaded Buffett to help them form an I-O-W-A sign (left).
Then, after picking Buffett’s brain for about 90 minutes, the group headed for lunch.
Lane was one of four students selected to ride with Buffett to Piccolo Pete’s for lunch and found herself seated next to him in the front seat of his white Cadillac as he drove through falling snow to the restaurant.
She was also one of about 20 students at Buffett’s table for lunch.
“He’s so down to earth and so normal,” Lane said.
On the way to the restaurant, Buffett asked Lane about her background and her decision to take a job after she graduates at Kraft Foods, where Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is the biggest shareholder.
At the restaurant, Lane said, Buffett told how he likes to joke with his good friend Microsoft founder Bill Gates by talking about Google and how its search engine is more popular than Microsoft’s Bing.
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