Bill Gates bakes an Oreo cake for Warren Buffett for his 90th birthday

 

Gates shared a touching blog with the cake baking video to mark Buffett's 90th birthday, recounting some of the most important things he learnt from him over the years.

Bengaluru: It's not often that you see one of the richest men in the world bake a birthday cakes online for a fellow friend and billionaire. But Warren Buffett turning 90 called for a special effort from his close friend Bill Gates.  The result- a sumptuous-looking Oreo cake with Buffett's image on top. 

Gates uploaded a video that showed him mixing flour, beating eggs, whipping cream and artistically arranging Oreo biscuits to make a cake for Buffett, who turned 90 on Sunday. Buffett famously sticks to a diet of mostly hamburgers, ice cream and Coke, and is known to indulge in a pack of Oreos for breakfast. Gates said the cake was in honour of his dietary preferences. 

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett- two of the world's most iconic billionaires are close friends who first met in 1991. 

Gates shared a touching blog with the cake baking video to mark Buffett's 90th birthday, recounting some of the most important things he learnt from him over the years. Both have pledged to give away most of their wealth to philanthropy. 

"It’s hard to believe that my close friend is entering his tenth decade. Warren has the mental sharpness of a 30-year-old, the mischievous laugh of a 10-year-old, and the diet of a 6-year-old. He once told me that he looked at the data and discovered that first-graders have the best actuarial odds, so he decided to eat like one," Gates said in his blog. 

He also said he learnt what friendship is all about from Buffett. 

"Of all the things I’ve learned from Warren, the most important thing might be what friendship is all about. As Warren himself put it a few years ago when we spoke with some college students, “You will move in the direction of the people that you associate with. So it’s important to associate with people that are better than yourself. The friends you have will form you as you go through life. Make some good friends, keep them for the rest of your life, but have them be people that you admire as well as like.A person that I admire as well as like—that's the perfect description of how I feel about Warren. Happy birthday, my friend."

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