Warren Buffett is the largest individual shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, holding the vast majority of the company's Class A voting shares through his legendary equity stake, which has given him controlling voting power for decades. While he has systematically gifted a significant portion of his economic interest to philanthropic foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through annual stock donations, he retains the ultimate voting command. Additionally, massive institutional asset management firms such as Vanguard Group and BlackRock hold substantial portions of Berkshire Hathaway's publicly traded Class B common stock on behalf of millions of individual index fund and mutual fund investors worldwide.
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