Berkshire CEO Greg Abel on working with Buffett, Kraft Heinz and using all his salary to buy the stock

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Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO, Greg Abel, generated some significant headlines during a roughly half-hour live interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Shortly after an SEC filing from the company early Thursday morning disclosed Berkshire “commenced repurchasing shares of our common stock” the day before, Abel told Becky Quick he plans to use his entire after-tax salary to personally buy Berkshire shares every year “as long as I’m the CEO.”

A second SEC filing that morning shows he started his annual purchases on Wednesday by paying $15.3 million for 21 Class A shares