Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway on why Google is the only tech investment they regret not making: We are ashamed that we… – The Times of India

Warren Buffett and the late Charlie Munger have long called missing Google‘s 2004 IPO one of their biggest investing mistakes—a regret they finally addressed in Q3 2025 by purchasing a $4.3 billion stake in Alphabet, Berkshire Hathaway’s first-ever position in the tech giant.In a 2017 shareholders meeting clip that resurfaced recently, Munger bluntly admitted: “We screwed up.” Buffett explained they had direct evidence of Google’s potential through GEICO, Berkshire’s insurance subsidiary, where $10-per-click ads with “marginal cost of exactly zero” delivered massive returns. “We could see in our own operations how well that…