He spends his work time on his own companies, the Gates Foundation, Grinnell College, and Citigroup Global Market Holdings (formerly Salomon Smith Barney Holdings, Inc.) along with Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger and Robert Denham of Berkshirehouse lawyers Munger, Tolles.
The family-owned shop specializes in nothing less than the finest meats available, period, including natural lamb, natural veal, Berkshire pork, free range chickens from Amish and Mennonite farms in Pennsylvania, house cured hams and bacon, and most of all, beef.