{"id":5753,"date":"2007-08-05T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/open-letter-to-warren-buffet.html"},"modified":"2007-08-05T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T21:20:41","slug":"open-letter-to-warren-buffet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/tmc-team\/open-letter-to-warren-buffet.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Warren Buffet"},"content":{"rendered":"
I receive many e-mails every day in reference to my blog at tehrani.com<\/a>. A while back I wrote about Warren Buffet as he sent a testimonial<\/a> letter to TMCnet. Somehow many people looking at my blog think Warren and I are fishing buddies. While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mr. Buffet, what I do not have is an invite from him to fish. Besides, I really do not have much time for fishing these days. Work seems to be all-consuming.<\/div>\n
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I would be very interested in having an ice cream with Warren if I ever get an invite though. I’ll even pay.<\/div>\n
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But I digress. I get many e-mails from people who want me to get a message to Mr. Buffet. As a matter of disclosure, I do not have<\/a> Warren’s e-mail address and to be honest I have no clue if he even reads e-mail.<\/div>\n
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I have a moral dilemma as the e-mails I receive are often touching. I never know if they are legit and even if I did know… Again, where would I send them? This message below seems legitimate so I thought it worth passing along and it is also for a good cause.<\/div>\n
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It seems Mr. Buffet reads at least one of TMC’s publications. Hopefully he reads my blog as well. The letter follows below:<\/div>\n
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Mr. Tehrani, I first want to introduce myself. My name is Charles Flack, I am a managing consulting in the area of networking and enterprise architecture with IBM Global Services and a 23 year employee with IBM. I am a BSEE graduate of Tennessee State University and MSEE Graduate of Syracuse University. I am the president of the Tennessee State University Engineering Alumni Association, where we have launched a major endowment effort in 2006. No, I am not asking you for a contribution, but your influence and for you to just to forward this information. In my Googling for Warren Buffet’s e-mail address, I read that you had somehow made contact with him. I would like to solicit your help assisting us in building our engineering scholarship endowment at Tennessee State University. Please review our giving brochure<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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If you can help us by forwarding this information to your peers, friends, and other non-profit foundation heads, we would greatly appreciate it. Feel free to visit our web site<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Sincerely;<\/div>\n
Charles K. Flack, BSEE ’84<\/div>\n
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President, Tennessee State University Engineering Alumni Association Building the Endowment, Securing the Future for the Tennessee State University College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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