Writing The Snowball
In June 2003, Schroeder, then a managing director at Morgan Stanley, gave up her analyst duties and became an advisory director to the company. At this time, she began to write The Snowball with Buffett’s stated cooperation and access to his personal records, an unprecedented level of access. As later recounted in the book, Buffett told Schroeder, where accounts of his life differed, to always use the “less flattering version.” In researching The Snowball, Schroeder spent 2,000 hours with Buffett and interviewed 250 other people.
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