An anonymous bidder has paid a record $ 19 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet at a New York City grill.
The meal with Berkshire Hathaway CEO was offered at an eBay auction for the benefit of the San Francisco-based charity GLIDE, which helps the homeless and the needy. The winner can bring up to seven guests.
Buffett has raised $ 53 million for GLIDE since the auction began in 2000. The charity won the support of billionaire philanthropist when his first wife, Susie, introduced him after she became volunteer there. He died in 2004.
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This year’s event will be the first private lunch offered with the 91-year-old billionaire since the previous $ 4.5 million bid by cryptocurrency trader Justin Sun in 2019. The last two auctions were canceled. · Lar because of Concern about COVID-19 and Buffett has said this will be the last.
“It has only been good,” Buffett said of the charity’s lunch. “I’ve met a lot of interesting people from all over the world. The only universal feature is that they feel like the money is going to be put to good use.”
Like this year’s winner, some other previous winners have chosen to remain anonymous. A former winner, Ted Weschler, received a job offer from Buffett’s company after spending nearly $ 5.3 million on two auctions in 2010 and 2011. Weschler now works as an investment manager for in the conglomerate of Omaha, Nebraska, Berkshire.
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