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1. Obtain a quantity of silver bullion. Where we're going, Federal Reserve Notes with 21st-Century dates will invite suspicion, and owning gold bullion is illegal.2. Set your time machine for Omaha, Nebraska, 1956.3. Open a bank account and deposit your silver bullion.4. A few days later, withdraw everything in your account in cash.5. Invest in the Buffett Partnership Ltd., with instructions to roll over your earnings until further notice (tell that nice young man - Warren - that you're going on a trip around the world and won't be back for a while so he won't worry).6. Set your time machine for some time in the late 1960s. Renew your acquaintance with Warren, and suavely deflect his observation that you haven't aged a day by returning the compliment. Get physical copies of your Berkshire-Hathaway stock and put them in a safe-deposit box.7. Return to the present as a wealthy individual. Start attending Berkshire-Hathaway's annual stockholder meeting. Smile enigmatically when Warren notices you in the audience. Offer to take him for a ride in your Delorean.

By who? The other people at Starbucks?I live in Seattle, where Starbucks started and where their coffeeshops are more ubiquitous than McDonalds, Dunkin’ Donuts, 7–11, and Circle K combined.Buying Starbucks is probably the best way to ensure you will not be noticed, if your sole criteria for standing out is the coffee cup you’re carrying.Other than convenience, habit, and a reliably good cup of coffee, Starbucks doesn’t have much snob appeal. Unless you’re a young teen. I have been told that it’s a status symbol in middle school to be seen drinking from a Starbucks cup on your way to first period homeroom or whatever, and I’ve seen what appear to be “cool kids” hanging out at various Starbucks.Some even drink coffee, but mostly what they’re getting — and what keeps Starbucks relevant — are the Unicorn Frappuccinos and related concoctions.If you’re an adult, it’s much more prestigious to go to a small, independent coffeehouse — preferably one that doesn’t cater to middle schoolers and probably charges a little more for a basic soy latte — albeit with fancier foam art.I can’t say people don’t go to specific Starbucks not to be noticed, but Starbucks in general isn’t especially prestigious. I do go to Starbucks quite a bit, but a lot of that is because they are a local business responsible for creating good jobs — including my first job in advertising, as a writer for their ad agency at the time.I am also a longtime stockholder in the company, and appreciate the way they do business. (I try not to invest in evil corporations.) And I get a lot of Starbucks cards — as casual gifts, honorariums, and even, once a year, with my annual stockholders report. Choosing a coffeehouse because you have a free coupon is the opposite of snobbery.

Legally and technically yes, but in practice they can be avoided.It would not be a bad idea that while you are meeting for other reasons, you tag the formal event to that.You do not need to hold stockholder meetings if all your stockholders communicate regularly with management, and are fairly in agreement as to what the achievable goals are, and how the CEO plans to achieve them.Once a year, write it up formally, and email it out “As required by law”. The less you say the better. If a consensus of shareholders want more, ask them exactly what they want, and give it to them.In the event that so much as one shareholder with a single share is at cross purposes with the stated goals of the shareholders, management and executive, then you are forced into the procedural hell of having to state the obvious, give Formal Notice of Meeting via registered mail and follow up by producing Formal Minutes of Meeting, also via registered mail.If the aforementioned shareholder has a substantial voting right, and you have a dispute with said, then have a lawyer write up the minutes.Procedural matters come to haunt you when the legal representative of the party to the dispute involve the Courts to adjudicate said disputes. Do not ever get to that point.Resolve the problem, or throw money at the problem. If you cannot then you must be resigned to handling all procedural matters with exactitude and professional help.This would be a good time to get some consensus among the shareholders as to having the by-laws of the corporation re-written so as to stand up to challenges from uninformed or ill intentioned shareholders. Qualify your majority carefully.Thanks for the ask, always a pleasure.