Retired Warren Buffett now spends his evenings glued to YouTube—including watching … – Fortune

After stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway last month, 96-year-old Warren Buffett has officially entered his retirement years. But instead of spending his evenings at the beach or traveling the world, Buffett’s nights can look surprisingly familiar: sitting in front of the television, watching YouTube. “Warren’s range is broad,” Sharon Osberg, one of Buffett’s closest friends who often visits and watches with him, told The Wall Street Journal . “It can be the silliest things.” But Buffett isn’t spending his nights scrolling through AI slop on YouTube Shorts or watching clips of CNBC, either. His viewing tastes are decidedly more eclectic: clips featuring Glenn Close, a documentary about attorney Roy Cohn, commercials from the 1950s, and Uzbekistan’s version of America’s Got Talent. It’s a hobby Buffett, who has a net worth of $143 billion, appears to have embraced even before stepping away from Berkshire. He handed the CEO reins to Greg Abel in January and chairmanship to his son, Howard, in September, but even while he was still running the over $1 trillion conglomerate, his evenings were largely his own.  Buffett has long made time for hobbies—he used to spend 8 hours a week playing bridge, including with Bill
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