Those whose work pushes for a Liberace-and-spotlight outfit and those brought to a kuroi apparel.

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(Some need to show off under the spotlight, some to operate quietly.)

You don’t need a flashy site if you already have the reputation. But without other signals an old simple site will be interpreted by many as an indicator of something amateurish or outdated.

Maybe.

I once raised a seed round with a dirt-simple (deliberately) deck that was just black and white text, Times New Roman default powerpoint style with zero design elements other than bullet points.

I got a lot of comments about how refreshing it was to just let the ideas and data stand for themselves without frills.

I accept that a deck and a website are not the same thing, but there is value in sometimes deliberately under-designing something.

>flashy site

But sometimes there's so much flash that you can't even tell what's being sold. And then there is the immediate blatant pop-over that demands that you make an account before you even have a chance to see the product.

Who designs crap like that?

Not for restaurants.

Restaurant websites should be a readable pdf of the menu and prices and operating hours with a link for further information about the restaurant.

Decent performance scores from PageSpeed Insights: 99 on mobile and 100 on desktop.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https://berkshirehathaw...

I think this startup has a shot. Maybe even become a $100B+ company someday.

Using websites as a gauge into how profitable a company is is like looking at Kant's right index finger to figure out what he meant in Critique of Pure Reason.

This plus never doing a stock split despite BRK.A trading at $468,000 per share are little details that show what an extraordinary and unique company it is. I don't think there's anyone in finance who cares about appearances less than Warren Buffet. The fact that he chooses to stay in Omaha, Nebraska instead of a penthouse in Manhattan's Financial District also seems to tie in to his modus operandi.

> they are never going to succeed with a website like this.

How do you define success? BRK beat the S&P 500 returns for a few decades. They are one of the largest companies on planet earth(top 10), and their net income after all expenses is approaching $100B USD a year.

They own well known public companies like Dairy Queen, Duracell, BNSF Railroad, Geico Insurance, etc.

They seem pretty successful to me.

I'm pretty sure it was meant to be sarchasm