Panelists included Charles Brandes of Brandes Investment Partners, Jan Hummel of Paradigm Capital, David Winters of Wintergreen Advisors, and Professors Bruce Greenwald and Tano Santos of the Columbia Business School.

FORBES: Some Closer than Others: Inside The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

Lightner and a full-time forager provide Atera with wintergreen, nettles, other plants, and fungi, mainly from upstate New York, and one wall of its dining room has been transformed into a vertical herb garden, overflowing with aromatics like camphor, lavender, and mint.

NEWYORKER: Atera