Buffett kept Berkshire in the textile business as long as he did partly because he liked Ken Chase, who ran it.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
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Reasoning
Buffett's inner motivations for keeping the textile business cannot be verified publicly.
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Warren Buffett, “Buffett kept Berkshire in the textile business as long as he did partly because he liked Ken Chase, who ran it.” (said 5 May 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_bf41f6bb5141, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_bf41f6bb5141
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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