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Bidder Pays $19M For Lunch With Warren Buffett; Proceeds Benefit SF Glide Foundation
The bidding started with $25,000 on June 12 and ended with $19,000,100 from an anonymous bidder on Friday, according to eBay News.
There really is no such thing as a free lunch.
An anonymous bidder paid a record-breaking $19 million for a private steak lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett. The sale was part of the 21st annual auction for a lunch with Buffett, produced in collaboration with eBay and the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit working on combating poverty, hunger, and homelessness.
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The bidding started with $25,000 on June 12 and ended with $19,000,100 from an anonymous bidder on Friday, according to a news release from eBay.
This year's huge sum is more than four times the winning bid of $4,567,888 in 2019 — the last auction before a hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 2019's winner was cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun.
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