An article by Ravi Nagarajan reviewing How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy:  The R.C. Willey Story appeared today exclusively on GuruFocus.  The following is a brief excerpt from the article:

In the spring of 1954, Bill Child was a new graduate of the University of Utah preparing to start a career as a school teacher in a rural town thirty miles north of Salt Lake City.  Within weeks, he was running a small appliance business founded by his father in law, R.C. Willey, who had fallen gravely ill and died a few months later.  Starting with a small family business that had revenues of $250,000, Mr. Child built an enterprise with sales of $257 million prior to selling the company to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway forty one years later.

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