Someone Paid $19 Million Dollars To Eat Lunch With Warren Buffet

<b>There really is no such thing as a free lunch.<br><br>An anonymous bidder paid a record-breaking $19 million for a private steak lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffet. </b><br><br>The sale was part of the 21st annual auction for a lunch with Buffet, produced in collaboration with eBay and the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit working on combating poverty, hunger, and homelessness.<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>2019's winner was cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun.<br><br><b>The mystery winner will enjoy a private lunch with Buffet and up to seven guests at Smith &amp; Wollensky Steakhouse in New York City, says eBay.</b><br><br>Unfortunately for aspiring investors hoping to top this year's record, this is the last year of the &quot;power lunch&quot; with Buffet. The annual auction has raised over $53 million for Glide.<br><br>&quot;On behalf of GLIDE and those we serve, I thank Warren Buffett for his unwavering generosity, partnership and dedication, and for his incredible contribution to our mission,&quot; said the organization's president and CEO Karen Hanrahan in the news release.<br><br>The auction was first started by the late Susie Buffet in 2000. Since 2003, eBay has managed the auction.<br><br>&quot;We are incredibly proud that Warren Buffett's final Power Lunch has broken our all-time record of funds raised, with all proceeds supporting GLIDE's efforts to create pathways out of crisis and transform lives,&quot; said eBay CEO Jamie Iannone in the release.<br><br><a rel=ugc href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/19/business/warren-buffet-lunch-19-million-trnd/index.html">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/19/business/warren-buffet-lunch-19-million-trnd/index.html</a>
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