If you are over 28 and profiles of incredibly driven, accomplished people younger than you tend to send you into paroxysms of self-loathing, do not read the Wall Street Journal’s glowing profile of Tracy Britt, the young woman who has become one of 82-year-old investing magnate Warren Buffett’s most trusted deputies.
Fresh out of Harvard Business School, Britt was hired as Buffett’s financial assistant at his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. “Almost four years later, [her role] has blossomed further, with Ms. Britt emerging as one of Mr. Buffett’s top lieutenants and even serving as chairman of four companies within his $284 billion conglomerate,” the Journal’s Anupreeta Das wrote.
