> He was elected by the board too, rather than directly placed by Warren.

I don’t think the last name hurt his chances in 1993 either.

You would want someone who is intimately familiar with the culture to be involved for a long time in case something happened to Warren.

I imagine there were some other candidates in 1993 that didn't share Buffet's genetics.

	▲	Moto7451 5 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They can just add those people to the board. It’s not a set number and they don’t regularly add or remove people unless they think they can bring something to the table. Sometimes that is simply “holds a bajillion shares” but if they wanted a High Frequency Trading CEO on the board for insight into that, they could add both his kid and that CEO.
	▲	rtkwe an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's also entirely possible he's essentially competent at the job of being a board member which is a pretty do-little job if the CEO is doing a good job.