Tracy Britt Cool

Tracy Britt Cool said she’s starting an investment vehicle that acquires companies “too small for Berkshire,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Cool joined Berkshire in 2009 as Buffett’s financial assistant. She was named CEO of premiere kitchen tools line Pampered Chef, a Berkshire subsidiary. Cool scored a job at Berkshire after graduating Harvard Business School by asking Buffett to work for him for “a day, a week, a month” and “do anything.” She became Buffett’s right-hand woman at the age of 25, performing financial research, accompanying the CEO to meetings and sometimes driving him around town Cool will also resign from the board of Kraft Heinz in the first quarter of next year, while remaining on Blue Apron’s board, the WSJ reported.